When She Comes (2005 Digital Remaster)

When She Comes (2005 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator

Composed by：Peter Hammill

Produced by：Van Der Graaf Generator

Slow

Slow motion in the quiet of the room

So potent is the smell of her perfume

That you think she's eternal

That you think she is everything

But no-one knows what she is

Repentance for all you should have said

Her entrance seems to raise you from the dead

And you think she's really with you

And you think that she'll always stay

Always ready to forgive you

Always ready to grant you her mercy

But in her own way

When she comes she'll be a stranger

Struck dumb you'll try to protest

As the drum beats out the danger

Too late you should have noticed

That the lady with the skin so white

Like something out of Blake or Burne-Jones

Always blocked out the light

And shadowed all you owned

Still you think she's forever

Yesterday and tomorrow

But no-one knows where she is

Still you swear that you can win her

And your prayer is that she'll want you

Aware once a saint now you're a sinner

And your sins are going to haunt you

When the lady with her skin so white

Like something out of Edgar Allan Poe

Holds your hand so very tight

And you hope that she'll never let go

Easy targets easy crosswords easy life:

These key margins leave you balanced on the knife

Bleeding darkly

In the end it all comes down to sleazy bargains

That hidden key you tried so hard to find it

All you can conceive is the effort to be worthy

Even now you need to be reminded

That La Belle Dame is without mercy

The lady with her skin so white

You never did quite catch her name

And now she holds you in the night

And she'll never let go again

She'll never let go again