Van Der Graaf Generator Lyrics

Album: The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

Refugees Lyrics

(Hammill)

North was somewhere years ago and cold:

Ice locked the people's hearts and made them old.

South was birth to pleasant lands, but dry:

I walked the waters' depths and played my mind.

East was dawn, coming alive in the golden sun:

the winds came, gently, several heads became one

in the summertime, though august people sneered;

we were at peace, and we cheered.

We walked alone, sometimes hand in hand,

between the thin lines marking sea and sand;

smiling very peacefully,

we began to notice that we could be free,

and we moved together to the West.

West is where all days will someday end;

where the colours turn from grey to gold,

and you can be with the friends.

And light flakes the golden clouds above all;

West is Mike and Susie,

West is where I love.

There we shall spend our final days of our lives;

tell the same old stories: yeah well, at least we tried.

Into the West, smiles on our faces, we'll go;

oh, yes, and our apologies to those

who'll never really know the way.

We're refugees, walking away from the life

that we've known and loved;

nothing to do or say, nowhere to stay; now we are alone.

We're refugees, carrying all we own

in brown bags, tied up with string;

nothing to think, it doesn't mean a thing,

but we'll be happy on our own.

West is Mike and Susie;

West is where I love,

West is refugees' home.