Uploaded by panosc2 on Jan 30, 2009
A song written by Peter Hammill
Song: My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)
Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator
Album: Still Life
Year: 1976
Genre: Progressive Rock
Lyrics:
Searching for diamonds in a sulphur mine,
leaning on props that are rotten,
hoping for anything, looking for a sign
that I am not forgotten.
Lost in a labyrinth of future mystery,
tracing my steps, all mistaken,
trusting to everything, praying it can be
that I am not forsaken.
I wait by the door, wondering
when you will come and keep me warm.
I pray for the end of the night,
hoping the light will still the storm
which presently betrays me;
helpless sea-monster stranded on the shore,
marooned in an ecstasy of waiting,
I yearn, although knowing that I shall dive no
more
in the tide already racing.
My lungs burst to cry: "Finally
how could you leave me here to die?
I freeze in the chill of this place
with no friendly face to smile goodbye-
how could you let it happen?"
How could you let it happen?
Dreams, hopes and promises, fragments out of
time,
all of these things have been spoken;
still you don't understand how it feels when I'm
waiting for them to be broken.
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In 1976 there was only mytube,but i knew that somewhere down the line would be a kind of a different tube, so a waited 36 years to honor a masterpiece.
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I remember getting really stoned listening to this very album. I was 13 years old by then... Important to mention that I did not have any drugs that day... Really deep material. A masterpiece of a band's creation.
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awsome
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This is pure Poetry
5 months ago 2
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a nossa vida num quarto(psicose)
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simplesmente fabuloso
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The song so incredibly turns from anticipating melancholy to utter darkness at 3:33. How could you let it happen..."
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Excellent
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That's tough love :D
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utterly, utterly brilliant
sublme
million stars plus one
MehefinHeulog 2 years ago 14
Awesome song, awesome lyrics, awesome arrangements, awesome sax (David Jackson).
Tubba324 2 years ago 4