Uploaded September 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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This is the B-side of Van Der Graaf Generator's 1972 single, "Theme One/W". Recorded during the "Pawn Hearts" sessions, an alternate version appears on the 2005 remaster of said album.


Lyrics (thanks to Sofa Sound):
Life is an endless succession of waves,
you're happy and you're sad
and you don't appreciate the good times
until you'e in the bad....
You wake up one morning - w -
and you're twice as unhappy
as you've ever been before in your life.

You wake up, go to the window
and see smoke billowing across the lawn.
You pick your feet up, drag yourself downstairs
and you're gone.
You wake up one morning - w -
and you're twice as unhappy
as you've ever been before in your life.

You wake up, look to your left
but you see no reassuring head.
You stay in bed all day.
At six o'clock you realise you're dead.