Rift Valley-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:Rift Valley] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:The Masters] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Rift Valley - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:42.44]At the edge of the canyon [00:45.77]Looking down upon the haze [00:49.99] [00:51.14]Which hides the future of this planet [00:55.09]Home our earth through all the days [00:59.26] [00:59.91]Which have been and will come [01:01.36] [01:04.07]I hear the running feet of those yet to follow [01:11.36] [01:14.17]At the end of such life as I call my own [01:18.11]I glimpse that yet to come [01:20.90] [01:23.66]Springing from me in the future [01:26.93]Trees of family shall run [01:30.35] [01:31.87]I have carried the seed [01:33.72] [01:36.18]Conceived from me all people multiply forward [01:43.25] [01:49.53]When it's over they will dig me from the gorge [01:52.46]And proclaim that I am the first man [01:54.19]First soldier first speaker first tool user [01:57.23]That with me civilisation began in some order [02:00.04]I have stumbled [02:01.26]Is it right or am I planned [02:04.37] [02:14.05]Still I feel it [02:14.97]Still I know that some day [02:16.62]The world will fall to this human hand [02:18.87]This clenched fist [02:20.45] [02:55.36]If that's the way it's going to be [02:57.04]I can only say good luck [02:58.58] [03:02.58]You men who follow on from me [03:04.20]Must crawl your way out of here [03:05.63]Or all our lives'll be [03:07.26]Trapped in the chasm [03:09.09] [03:36.05]Trapped in the chasm [03:37.37] [03:46.39]The dying day [03:47.44]I stand upon the edge stare down [03:50.37]At what's to come below [03:53.37] [03:55.39]In a way there's all the future in me [03:59.01]Destiny already known [04:02.49] [04:03.20]Already tired in my heart [04:05.23] [04:07.92]I start the long walk forward [04:12.38]Into rift valley [04:14.96] [04:16.44]To rest in rift valley [04:19.79] [04:22.03]Still instinctively trying to save my kind [04:25.62]I survive into the future