Emperor In His War-room: The Emperor/The Room (2005 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[00:10.11]Standing in the space [00:15.34]That holds the silent lace of night away from you [00:24.89]You think that you can hold [00:30.42]The searing, molten gold between your fingers [00:43.03]But it slips through, tearing tendons as it goes [00:51.33]Exposing the white of a knuckle [00:56.08]Flesh and metal forming letters in the mould [01:11.01]Cradling your gun [01:16.43]After choosing the ones you think should die [01:25.69]Lying on the hill [01:30.97]Crawling over the windowsill into your living-room [01:42.27]They stare out, glass-eyed aimless heads [01:50.45]Bodies torn by vultures [01:55.15]You are the man whose hands are rank with the smell of death [02:09.93]Saviour of the Fallen, Protector of the Weak [02:16.84]Friend of the Tall Ones, Keeper of the Peace [02:23.91]Ah, but it is the only way you know [02:37.31]Looking out to sea [02:42.52]A flattened plane of ****s which bears no living [02:51.22]You crush life in your fist [02:57.56]As your heart is kissed by the lips of death [03:09.56]Ghosts betray you, ghosts betray you [03:13.45]In the night they steal your eye from its socket [03:21.71]And the ball hangs fallen on your cheek [03:37.14]Complaining tongues are stilled [03:42.40]A thousand mouths are filled with rusting metal [03:51.35]Your face a shade of green [03:57.11]Somehow you try to speak through all the garbage in your mouth [04:08.54]But it won't come out [04:12.58]And you cannot frame the words as your stepson [04:20.62]Throws your fame into the flames and you are burned [04:36.41]Saviour of the Fallen, Protector of the Weak [04:43.49]Friend of the Tall Ones, Keeper of the Peace [04:51.38]Ah, but it is the only way you know [05:41.00]Live by sword and you shall die so [05:44.50]All your power shall come to nought [05:48.01]Every life you take is part of your own [05:51.60]Death, not power, is what you've bought [06:40.01]Cringing in your room [06:46.26]Now the outriders of doom step on your threshold [06:57.36]Begging for your life [07:04.00]As the impartial knife sinks in your screaming flesh [07:17.09]Without malice, merely taking murder's toll [07:24.50]You must pay the price of hate [07:29.03]And that price is your soul [07:47.85]Live in peace or die forever in your war-room