A Louse is Not a Home (Live at L’Altro Mondo, Rimini, Italy/ 1975) Lyrics by Van der Graaf Generator
Godbluff (Deluxe)
2005
[Verse 1] Sometimes it's very scary here, sometimes gets very sad Sometimes I think I'll disappear; betimes I think I have There's a line snaking down my mirror Splintered glass distorts my face And though the light is strong and strange It can't illuminate the musty corners of this There is a lofty, lonely, Lohengrenic castle in the clouds; I draw my murky meanings there And seven years' dark luck is just around the corner And in the shadows lurks the spectre of Despair [Bridge 1] A cracked mirror 'mid the drapes of the landing: Split image, labored understanding... I'm only trying to find a place to hide my home [Break] [Chorus 1] I've lived in houses composed of glass Where every movement is charted But now the monitor screens are dark And I can't tell if silent eyes are there My words are spiders upon the page They spin out faith, hope and reason - But are they meet and just, or only dust Gathering about my chair? [Post-Chorus 2] Sometimes I get the feeling That there's someone else there: The faceless watcher makes me uneasy; I can feel him through the floorboards And His presence is creepy He informs me that I shall be expelled What is that but out of and into? Don't know the nature of the door that I'd go through Don't know the nature of the nature that I am inside... [Chorus 2] I've lived in houses of brick and lead Where all emotion is sacred And if you want to devour the fruit You must first sniff at the fragrance And lay your body before the shrine With poems and posies and papers Or, if you catch the ruse, you'll have to choose To stay, a monk, or leave, a vagrant [Post-Chorus 2] What is this place you call home? Is it a sermon or a confession? Is it the chalice that you use for protection? Is it really only somewhere you can stay? Is it a rule-book or a lecture? Is it a beating at the hands of your Protector? Does the idol have feet of clay? [Verse 2] Home is what you make it So my friends all say But I rarely see their homes in these dark days And some of them are snails And carry houses on their backs; Others live in monuments Which, one day, will be racks I keep my home in place With sellotape and tin-tacks; But still I feel there's some other Force here... He who cracks the mirrors and moves the walls Keeps staring through The eye-slits of the portraits in my hall He ravages my library and taps the telephone I've never actually seen Him But I know He's in my home And if he goes away I can't stay here either I believe... I think... Well, I don't know... [Instrumental Bridge] [Verse 3] I only live in one room at a time But all of the walls are ears and all the windows, eyes Everything else is foreign 'Home' is my wordless chant: Mmmmmaah! Give it a chance! [Instrumental] [Chorus 3] I am surrounded by flesh and bone I am a temple of living I am a hermit, I am a drone And I am boring out a place to be With secret garlands about my head Unearthly silence is broken The room is growing dark, and in the stark light I see a face I know [Post-Chorus 3] Could this be the guy who never shows The cracked mirror what he's feeling Merely mumbles prayers to the ground where he's kneeling: "Home is home is home is home is home is home is home is me!"? All you people looking for your houses Don't throw your weight around You might break your glasses And if you do, you know you just can't see [Verse 4] And then how are you to find The dawning of the day? Day is just a word I use To keep the dark at bay And people are imaginary, nothing else exists Except this room I'm sitting in And, of course, the all-pervading mist - Sometimes I wonder if even that's real [Verse 5] Maybe I should de-louse this place Maybe I should de-place this louse Maybe I'll maybe my life away In the confines of this silent house [Outro] Sometimes it's very scary here, sometimes it's very sad Sometimes I think I'll disappear, and betimes, well, I think -
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