a plague of lighthouse keepers: s.h.m. - van der graaf generator lyrics

‘unreal, unreal’ ghost helmsmen scream
and fall in through the sky,
not breaking through my seagull shrieks…
no breaks until i die:
the spectres scratch on window-slits –
hollowed faces and mindless grins
only intent on destroying what they’ve lost.

i crawl the wall till steepness ends
in the vertical fall