《Childlike Faith In Childhood’s End(2000 Digital Remaster)》歌词

歌曲： Childlike Faith In Childhood’s End(2000 Digital Remaster)

所属专辑：The Box

歌手： Van Der Graaf Generator

时长： 12:25

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Existence is a stage on which we pass[00:00:00]

A sleepwalk trick for mind and heart：[00:00:07]

It's hopeless I know[00:00:12]

But onward I must go[00:00:15]

And try to make a start[00:00:18]

At seeing something more than day to day[00:00:24]

Survival chased by final death[00:00:29]

If I believed this the sum[00:00:34]

Of the life to which we've come[00:00:37]

I wouldn't waste my breath[00:00:39]

Somehow there must be more[00:00:45]

There was a time[00:01:03]

When more was felt than known[00:01:04]

But now entrenched inside my sett[00:01:08]

In light more mundane[00:01:13]

Thought rattles round my brain：[00:01:15]

We live we die and yet[00:01:17]

In the beginning there was order and destiny[00:01:23]

But now that path has reached the border[00:01:31]

And on our knees[00:01:36]

Is no way to face the future whatever it be[00:01:39]

Though the forces which hold us in place[00:01:47]

Last through eons in unruffled grace[00:01:51]

We too wear the face of creation[00:01:55]

As anti matter sucks and pulses periodically[00:02:14]

The bud unfolds the bloom is dead[00:02:20]

All space is living history[00:02:24]

It seems as though time must betray us[00:02:26]

Yet we're alive[00:02:30]

And though I see no God to save us[00:02:33]

Yetl we survive[00:02:37]

Through the centuries of progress[00:02:39]

Which don't get us very far[00:02:42]

All illusion All is bogus[00:02:47]

We don't yet know what we are[00:02:49]

Laughing hoping praying joking Son of Man[00:03:01]

With lowered eyes but lifting hearts[00:03:06]

We're grains of sand[00:03:10]

And though in time the sea[00:03:13]

May claim us for its own[00:03:15]

We are the rocks which root the future[00:03:19]

On us it grows[00:03:22]

We might not be there to share it[00:03:24]

If eternity's a jest[00:03:28]

But I think that I can bear it[00:03:29]

If the next life is the best[00:03:35]

Even if there is a heaven when we die[00:04:33]

Endless bliss would be as meaningless as the lie[00:04:36]

That always comes as answer to the question[00:04:41]

Why do we see through the eyes of creation[00:04:44]

Adrift without a course[00:05:08]

It's very lonely here[00:05:17]

Our only conjecture[00:05:23]

What lies behind the dark[00:05:26]

Still I find I can cling to a lifeline[00:05:37]

Think of a lifetime which means more[00:05:44]

Than my own one[00:05:51]

Dreams of a grander thing than we are[00:05:54]

Time and Space hang heavy on my shoulders：[00:06:02]

When all life is over who can say[00:06:13]

No mutated force shall remain[00:06:20]

Though the towers of the city are denied[00:06:37]

To we men of clay[00:06:43]

Still we know we shall scale[00:06:46]

The heights some day[00:06:49]

Frightened in the silence[00:06:54]

Frightened but thinking very hard[00:06:58]

Let us make computations of the stars[00:07:09]

Older wiser sadder blinder watch us run：[00:08:51]

Faster longer harder stronger now it comes：[00:08:58]

Colour blisters image splinters gravitate[00:09:04]

Towards the centre in final splendour disintegrate[00:09:10]

The universe now beckons[00:09:17]

And Man too must take His place[00:09:20]

Just a few last fleeting seconds[00:09:24]

To wander in the waste[00:09:27]

And the children who were ourselves move on[00:09:37]

Reincarnation stills its now perfected song[00:09:43]

And at last we are free of the bonds of creation[00:09:49]

All the jokers and gaolers all the junkies[00:09:56]

And slavers too[00:10:08]

All the throng who have danced a merry tune[00:10:11]

Human we can all be[00:10:18]

But Humanity we must rise above[00:10:22]

In the name of all faith and hope and love[00:10:33]

There's a time for all pilgrims[00:10:42]

And a time for the fakers too[00:10:44]

There's a time when we all will stand alone[00:10:51]

And nude[00:10:55]

Naked to the galaxies[00:10:58]

Naked but clothed in the overview[00:11:02]

As we reach Childhood's End we must start anew[00:11:13]

And though dark is the highway[00:11:32]

And the peak's distance breaks my heart[00:11:38]

For I never shall see it still I play my part[00:11:44]

Believing that what waits for us[00:11:52]

Is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past[00:11:57]

In the death of mere humans life shall start[00:12:09]