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Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator
Canonical path: /van-der-graaf-generator/a-plague-of-lighthouse-keepers-shm
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A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: S.H.M.
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A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: S.H.M.
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'Unreal, unreal' ghost helmsmen scream
and fall in through the sky,
not breaking through my seagull shrieks...
no breaks until I die:
the spectres scratch on window-slits -
hollowed faces and mindless grins
only intent on destroying what they've lost.
I crawl the wall till steepness ends
in the vertical fall;
my pain has sailed into the sea:
no joking hopes at dawn.
White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask
lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
and parallel my isolated tower...
no paraffin for the flame
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