Lyrics - Man-erg by Van Der Graaf Generator

The killer lives inside me:
I can feel him move.
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his room,but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine;he'll speak my words and slice my mind inside.
The killer lives.
The angels live inside me:
I can feel them smile....
Their presence strokes and soothes the tempest in my mindand their love can heal the wounds that
I have wrought.
They watch me as
I go to fall--well,
I know
I shall be caught,
For the angels live.
How can
I be free?
How can
I get help?
Am
I really me?
Am
I someone else?
But stalking in my cloisters hang the acolytes of gloomand
Death's
Head throws his cloak onto the corner of my room and
I am doomed..
But laughing in my courtyard play the pranksters of my youthand solemn, waiting
Old
Man in the gables of the roof: he tells me truth...
And
I, too, live inside me and very often don't know who
I am:
I know,
I'm not a hero.....
I hope that
I'm not damned.
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
Dictators, saviours, refugeesin war and peaceas long as
Man lives....
I'm just a man, and killers, angels, all are these:
Dictators, saviours, refugees........---------------------------------------------------------

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