Childlike Faith In Childhood's End (Live, Royal Festival Hall, London, 2005) [2022 Remaster]
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Existence is a stage on which we pass
A sleepwalk trick the mind and heart
It's hopeless I know
But onward I must go
And try to make a start
At seeing something more than day to day
Survival chased by final death
If I believed this the sum
Of the life to which we've come
I wouldn't waste my breath
Somehow there must be more
There was a time when more was felt and known
But now entrenched inside my set
In light more mundane
Thought rattles round my brain
We live, we die and yet
In the beginning there was order and destiny
But now that path has reached the border and on our knees
Here's no way to face the future whatever it be
Though the forces which hold us in place
Last through eons in unruffled grace
We too wear the face of creation
As antimatter sucks and pulses periodically
The bottommost of gloom is death
For space is living history
It seems as though time must betray us
Yet we're alive
And though I see no God to save us
Yet we survive
Through the centuries of progress
Which don't get us very far
All illusion or just progress
We don't yet know what we are
Longing, hoping, praying, joking son of man
With low on eyes but lifting hearts
We're grains of sand
It seems as though time must betray us
Yet we're alive
And though I see no God to save us
Yet we survive
Through the centuries of progress
Which don't get us very far
All illusion or just progress
We don't yet know what we are
Even if there is a heaven when we die
Endless bliss would be as meaningless as a lie
That always comes an answer to the question why
Do we see through the eyes of creation
Adrift without a course
It's very lonely here
Our only conjecture
What lies behind the dark
Still I find I can cling to a lifeline
Think of a lifetime which means more than my old one
Dreams of a grander thing than we are
Time and space hang heavy on my shoulders
When all
No campsite, no mutated force shall remain
Though the towers of the city
Are denied to we men of faith
Still we know we shall scale the heights someday
Frightened in the silence
Frightened but thinking very hard
Let us make computation for the cause
Faster, longer, harder, stronger, watch us run
Older, wiser, brighter, finer, now it comes
Color, limbos, aim it glimmers, gravitate
Towards our sense and final splendor, disintegrate
For the universe now beckons and man too must take his place
Just a few more fleeting seconds to wander in the waste
And the children who are of self move on
Reincarnation tills its now perfected song
And at last we are free of the bonds of creation
All the jokers and jakers
All the junkies and slavers too
All the dogs who have danced to merit you
Human we can all be
But humanity we must rise above
In the name of all faith and hope and love
Let us cry for all pilgrims
Let us cry for all fakers too
Let us cry when we all will stand alone anew
Naked to the galaxy
Naked but clothed in the overview
And we shall move then with thought anew
And though dark is the highway
And the peak's distance breaks my heart
For I never shall see it, still I play my part
Believing that what waits for us
Is a cosmos compared to the dust of the past
And the breath of man, human life shall last