| Song Lyrics Library |
Your free song lyrics source! Classic and popular song lyrics organized and browsable by artist and title. If you want song lyrics, here's the place to be. |
Artist Index
- A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z -
- A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z -
Arrow
Van Der Graaf Generator Song Lyrics
Stub towers in the distance, riders the blasted moor against the horizon Fickle promises of treaty, fatal harbingers of war, futile horisons swirl as one in this flight, this mad chase, this surge across the marshy mud landscape until the meaning is forgotten. Hood masks the eager face, skin stretched and sallow, headlong into the chilling night, as swift as any arrow. Feet against the flagstones, fingers scrabbling at the lock, craving protection. 'Sanctuary!' croaks a voice, half-strangled by the shock of its rejection. Shot the bolt in the wall, rusted the key; now the echoes of all frightfull memory intrude in the silence. What a crawl against the slope - dark loom the gallows One touch to the chapel door, how swiftly comes the arrow. Compassion you plead, as though they kept it in a box - that's long since been empty. I'd like to help you somehow, but I'm in the self-same spot: my condition exempts me. We are all on the run on our knees; the sundial draws a line upon eternity across every number. How long the time seems, how dark the shadow, how straight the eagle flies, how straight towards his arrow. How long the night is - why is this passage so narrow? How strange my body feels, impaled upon the arrow. |
Return to Van Der Graaf Generator song lyrics
Privacy Policy
| All lyrics are provided for informational and educational purposes only, mostly for my wife who's a librarian who's sick of getting hammered with pop-ups at work when someone asks her to look for a song lyric. Enjoy the spam-free fruits of listening to her complain. Song lyrics are subject to all U.S. copyright laws and remain property of their respective owners. If you're one of those copyright owners or their legal representatives and want your material removed from this site, send an e-mail to imgoingtosueyou@song-lyrics-library.com. If you're a webmaster from another lyrics site who's going to threaten me or pretend to be a lawyer, save yourself the trouble because I'll just ignore you. For anything else you can reach me at webmaster@song-lyrics-library.com. |