Van Der Graaf Generator - My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)

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Uploaded by 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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  • utterly, utterly brilliant

    sublme

    million stars plus one

  • Awesome song, awesome lyrics, awesome arrangements, awesome sax (David Jackson).

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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.

  • 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.

  • awsome

  • This is pure Poetry

  • a nossa vida num quarto(psicose)

  • simplesmente fabuloso

    

  • The song so incredibly turns from anticipating melancholy to utter darkness at 3:33. How could you let it happen..."

  • Excellent

  • @tantawi1992

    That's tough love :D

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