[00:40.59]Slow motion in the quiet of your room:
[00:45.33]so potent is the smell of her perfume
[00:48.84]that you think she's eternal
[00:51.12]that you think she's everything
[00:55.65]-but no-one knows what she is....
[01:00.03]Repentance for all you should have said-
[01:04.41]her entrance seems to raise you from the dead
[01:07.74]and you think she's really with you
[01:09.99]and you think she'll always stay.
[01:11.19]When She Comes (BBC Version)(2005 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator
[01:12.90]always ready to forgive you,
[01:15.24]always ready to grant you her mercy
[01:18.03]but in her own way.
[01:21.96]When she comes she'll be a stranger;
[01:25.44]struck dumb you'll try to protest
[01:29.97]as the drum beats out the danger,
[01:33.96]too late-you should have noticed
[01:38.13]that the lady with her skin so white
[01:49.35]like something out of Blake or Burne-Jones
[01:57.84]always blocked out the light
[02:01.56]and shadowed all you owned.
[02:15.18]Still you think she's forever,
[02:20.10]yesterday and tomorrow
[02:25.38]-but no-one knows where she is.
[02:30.87]Still you swear that you can win her
[02:35.19]and your prayer is that she'll want you;
[02:39.45]aware, once a saint, now you're a sinner
[02:44.61]and your sins are going to haunt you
[02:47.46]when the lady with her skin so white
[02:58.35]like something out of Edgar Allen Poe
[03:06.87]holds your hand so tight
[03:10.47]and you hope that she'll never let go.
[04:12.78]Easy targets, easy cross-words, easy life:
[06:53.49]these key margins leave you balanced on the knife,
[06:57.60]bleeding darkly. In the end it all comes down
[07:01.59]to sleazy bargains.
[07:04.71]That hidden key-you tried so hard to find it:
[07:09.18]all you can concieve is the effort to be worthy.
[07:14.43]Even now you need to be reminded
[07:17.19]that La Belle Dame is without mercy.
[07:25.35]The lady with her skin so white
[07:28.29]-you never did quite catch her name-
[07:40.56]now she holds you in the night
[07:44.19]and she'll never let go again
[08:01.89]she'll never let go again