Testo Scorched Earth - Live - Van Der Graaf Generator
Testo della canzone Scorched Earth - Live (Van Der Graaf Generator), tratta dall'album Merlin Atmos: Live Performances 2013 (Deluxe Edition)
Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast
He looks into the future and remembers what is past
Wonders what he's doing on this battlefield
Shrugs to his shadow, impatient to bend it to kneel
In his wake he leaves a scorch earth and work in vain
Smoke drifts up behind him, he is free again
Free to run before the onslaught of a deadly foe
Leaving nothing in the village, hardly leaving home
And it's far too late to turn
Unless it's to stone
Charging gladly forward, tracks across the snow
Wind screams madness to him, ever on he goes
Leaving snow to mark his passage, traces weary climb
Cross the moor and make the headland, stumbling wayward blind
In the end his footprints extend
As one single line
This latest exponent of heresy
Is goaded into an attack
Persuaded to charge at his enemy
Too late, he knows it is too late now to turn back
Too soon by far to falter
The past sits uneasily at his rear
He's walking right into the trap
Surrounded but striving through will and fear
Ahead of him he knows awaits an ambuscade
The dice slip through his fingers and he's living from day to day
Carrying the world around upon his back
Leaving nothing behind but the trail of his tracks
He will not be hostage, he will not be slain
No care of past can trap him, though the future may
Still he runs, and world behind him, in advanced retreat
Still his life remains unfettered in
An endless beatLeave the past to burn
At least that's been his own
Scorched earth, that's all that's left when he's done
Holding nothing but beholding to no-one
Leaving nothing but an old false pride
Piercing eyes, snow cracked, that's all that's left to be seen
Of a man who ends up the cost of a fiend
Leaving nothing but the life he's known
Well this at least has been his own
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Writer(s): Peter Hammill, David Nicholas George Jackson
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