Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild), artist - Van Der Graaf Generator.
Date of issue: 31.12.1975
Song language: English
Meurglys III (The Songwriters Guild) |
These days I mainly just talk to plants and dogs- |
All human contact seems painful, risky, odd, |
So I stay acting god in my own universe |
Where I trade cigarettes in return for songs. |
The deal’s made harder the longer I go on: |
I find me gone from all but the secret languages. |
If only I could phrase satisfactory words |
In conversation to make my passion heard… |
If only… |
Meurglys III, he’s my friend, |
The only one that I can trust |
To let it be without pretence |
-there's no-one else. |
It’s killing me, but in the end |
There’s no-one else I know is true; |
There’s none in all the masks of men. |
There’s nothing else |
but my guitar… |
I suppose he’ll have to do. |
Talking in tongues is easy when you know how, |
Quite pleasing, but still nothing works out right. |
Pressurised lungs, heart bleeding, you’d better slow down |
And show that you can make it through the night. |
However dark it seems, the present is just the present, |
Beyond it no future darkness lies concealed |
And through these desperate dreams, |
This longing for friends and comfort |
You know that in the end all will be revealed. |
When no more plants or dogs or rooms are there |
to hear you |
And no-one is left near you, then you’ll see: |
In the end there’s only you and Meurglys III |
and this is just what you chose to be, |
fool! |
Though I know all this is just escape, |
I run because I don’t know where the prison lies. |
In songs like this I can bear the weight… |
I’m running still |
I shall until |
one day I hope that I’ll arrive. |