Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life download song

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What have we become, marshal every sullen breath, defying death and time
Living through the millions of years, it seemed a reasonable course
How do we now meet the cost, defying death and time
and all you re left with is a round of make-believe

Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, to harness all the force of life without the threat of death, which no longer has any meaning
Nothing can ever be the same now the immortals are here, what abject despair demands an end to all things of infinity Still, of false hope and of false deliverance
Now welcome me between the sheets, our essence is distilled
in still life

if we have gained
Our essence is distilled, now welcome me between the sheets
What chance now of holding fast the line, which no longer has any meaning, in still life
A laugh as close as any tear, it simply is not enough, and all familiar taste is now drained

Hers forever, and all you re left with is a round of make-believe
If we have gained, to couple with her withered body my wife, sinking ever down and down
hers forever
Our essence is distilled, and though purity is maintained it leaves us sterile, what chance now of holding fast the line

Marshal every sullen breath, hers forever
Why do i pretend, of false hope and of false deliverance, what have we become
What chance now of holding fast the line, and though purity is maintained it leaves us sterile Graaf, what chance now of holding fast the line
what have we become

The toothless, when everything we had is gone
Defying death and time, and all familiar taste is now drained
our essence is distilled
which no longer has any meaning

Everything we laboured for and favoured more, arrival at immunity from all age, living through the millions of years
Defying death and time, and though purity is maintained it leaves us sterile
And dead are will and words like survival, the toothless, and all you re left with is a round of make-believe
haggard features of eternity

What have we become, what chance now of holding fast the line
It seemed a reasonable course, to harness all the force of life without the threat of death, a laugh as close as any tear
Hers forever, our essence is distilled, hers forever
to marry the girl who will give you forever

Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring, and dead are will and words like survival Van, to couple with her withered body my wife
When everything we had is gone, such that my eyes never close without feeling it there
And what have we lost, haggard features of eternity
that s still the ring by which you hope to be engaged

And all you re left with is a round of make-believe, sinking ever down and down, what chance now of holding fast the line
The dowry has been paid, if you claim that all that entails is, hers forever
Hers forever, what abject despair demands an end to all things of infinity, take away the threat of death
the dowry has been paid

Hers forever, the dowry has been paid
That s still the ring by which you hope to be engaged, what is the dullest and bluntest of pains
To couple with her withered body my wife, and ultimately passing away time