Childlike Faith In Childhood's End (2005 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:Childlike Faith In Childhood's End (2005 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:Still Life] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.11]Childlike Faith In Childhood's End (2005 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:00.78]Written by：Peter Hammill/P Hammill [00:00.79]Existence is a stage on which we pass [00:05.95] [00:07.24]Asleep walk trick for mind and heart [00:10.71] [00:12.83]It's hopeless I know [00:14.60] [00:15.30]But onward I must go [00:17.02] [00:17.91]And try to make a start [00:19.64] [00:24.29]At seeing something more than day to day [00:27.73] [00:29.93]Survival chased by final death [00:33.34] [00:34.96]If I believed this the sum [00:36.79] [00:37.30]Of the life to which we've come [00:39.41]I wouldn't waste my breath [00:44.50] [00:45.34]Somehow there must be more [00:47.69] [01:03.68]There was a time when more was felt than [01:06.12]Known [01:08.01] [01:08.56]But now entrenched inside my sett [01:12.87] [01:13.69]In light more mundane thought rattles [01:16.91]Round my brain [01:18.16]We live we die and yet [01:19.85] [01:23.95]In the beginning there was order and [01:29.22]Destiny but now that path has reached the [01:35.18]Border and on our knees is no way to face [01:42.74]The future whatever it be [01:45.61] [01:46.87]Though the forces which hold us in place [01:50.55] [01:51.49]Last through eons in unruffled grace [01:55.13] [01:55.86]We too wear the face of creation [02:01.34] [02:14.32]As anti matter sucks and pulses [02:17.88] [02:18.53]Periodically the bud unfolds the bloom [02:23.12]Is dead all space is living history [02:26.36] [02:27.10]It seems as though time must betray us [02:31.22]Yet we're alive [02:32.06] [02:33.66]And though I see no god to save us still we [02:38.01]Survive [02:38.62] [02:39.36]Through the centuries of progress [02:42.65]Which don't get us very far [02:44.75] [02:47.35]All illusion all is bogus we don't yet [02:51.05]Know what we are laughing hoping [03:02.62]Praying joking son of man [03:05.43] [03:06.97]With lowered eyes but lifting hearts [03:10.12] [03:10.75]We're grains of sand [03:12.31] [03:13.25]And though in time the sea may claim us [03:17.19]For its own [03:18.36] [03:19.54]We are the rocks which root the future [03:23.26]On us it grows [03:24.50] [03:25.31]We might not be there to share it if [03:28.63]Eternity's a jest [03:32.69]But I think that I can hear it [03:35.85]If the next life is the best [03:38.98] [04:32.32]Even if there is a heaven when we die [04:36.85]Endless bliss would be as meaningless [04:39.62]As the lie that always comes as answer to [04:43.49]The question 'why do we see through the [04:46.74]Eyes of creation' [04:56.37] [05:08.61]Adrift without a course it's very lonely [05:21.38] [05:22.06]Here our only conjecture what lies [05:27.86] [05:28.41]Behind the dark [05:30.53] [05:38.29]Still I find I can cling to a lifeline [05:43.82] [05:44.55]Think of a lifetime which means more than [05:51.55]My own one dreams of a grander thing [05:58.27]Than we are [06:01.32] [06:02.55]Time and space hand heavy on my [06:11.42]Shoulders [06:13.72]When all life is over who can say [06:20.54]No mutated force shall remain [06:26.39] [06:37.95]Though the towers of the city are denied [06:43.43]To we men of clay [06:46.01] [06:47.02]Still we know we shall scale the heights [06:50.35]Some day [06:53.23] [06:54.30]Frightened in the silence [06:58.75]Frightened but thinking very hard [07:07.81] [07:10.05]Let us make computation of the stars [07:15.08] [08:51.87]Older wiser sadder blinder watch us [08:56.15]Run faster longer harder stronger now [09:02.74]It comes colour blisters image splinters [09:08.66]Gravitate towards the centre in final [09:13.40]Splendour disintegrate [09:16.11] [09:17.29]The universe now beckons [09:19.96]And man too must take his place [09:24.27]Just a few last fleeting seconds [09:27.61]To wander in the waste [09:31.39] [09:37.86]And the children who were ourselves [09:40.34] [09:41.06]Move on [09:41.86] [09:43.30]Reincarnation stills its now perfected song [09:48.04] [09:49.57]And at last we are freed of the bonds [09:54.07] [09:55.59]Of creation [09:56.97] [10:03.00]All the jokers and gaolers all the junkies [10:08.53]And slavers too [10:10.61] [10:11.81]All the throng who have danced a merry [10:15.47]Tune human we can all be [10:20.72] [10:22.83]But humanity we must rise above [10:31.71] [10:33.67]In the name of all faith and hope and love [10:37.90] [10:42.39]There's a time for all pilgrims and a time [10:47.74]For the fakers too [10:50.29] [10:51.24]There's a time when we all will stand alone [10:55.00]And ni**a [10:57.47] [10:58.67]Ni**a to the galaxies [11:00.74] [11:02.95]Ni**a but clothed in the overview as [11:13.70]We reach childhood's end we start a new [11:19.85] [11:32.70]And though dark is the highway [11:35.83] [11:38.46]And the peak's distance breaks my heart [11:42.37] [11:44.17]For I never shall see it still I play my part [11:52.02] [11:53.12]Believing that what waits for us is the [11:58.10]Cosmos compared to the dust of the [12:03.88]Past [12:08.06] [12:09.54]In the death of mere humans life shall [12:13.85]Start