Pilgrims (2005 Digital Remaster)

Song Pilgrims (2005 Digital Remaster)
Artist Van Der Graaf Generator
Album Still Life

Lyrics

[00:06.45] Sometimes you feel so far away,
[00:09.89] Distanced from all the action of the play,
[00:17.99] Unable to grasp significance,
[00:21.21] Marking the plot with diffident dismay,
[00:29.07] Stranded at centre stage,
[00:35.00] Scrabbling through your diary for a lost page:
[00:41.08] Unsure of the dream.
[00:48.82] Kicking a stone across the beach,
[00:51.29] Aching for love and comfort out of reach,
[00:59.58] The way ahead seems to be so bleak,
[01:02.26] There's no-one with any friendship left to speak
[01:10.13] Or show any relation
[01:15.24] Between your present and future situations:
[01:22.37] Lost to the dream.
[01:29.50] Away, away, away: look to the future day
[01:53.81] For hope, some form of peace
[02:10.35] Within the growing storm.
[02:17.87] I climb through the evening,
[02:23.80] Alive and believing:
[02:29.03] In time we shall all know our goals
[02:36.34] And so, finally, home.
[02:39.32] For now, all is secret
[02:45.04] Though how could I speak it,
[02:49.99] Allow me the dream in my eye.
[02:58.13] I've been waiting for such a long time
[03:03.74] Just to see it at last,
[03:09.16] All of the hands tightly clasped,
[03:14.22] All of us pilgrims.
[03:19.23] Walking in silence down the coast,
[03:21.80] Merely to journey - here hope is the most;
[03:27.23] Merely to know there is an end,
[03:30.11] All of us - lovers, brothers, sisters, friends
[03:35.69] Hand in hand.
[03:40.90] Shining footprints on the wet sand
[03:46.96] Lead to the dream.
[03:54.11] The time has come, the tide has almost run
[04:18.30] And drained the deep: I rise from lifelong sleep.
[04:42.10] It seems such a long time
[04:48.52] I've dreamed but now, awake, I
[04:53.69] Can see we are pilgrims and so
[05:00.88] Must walk this road,
[05:04.33] Unknown in our purpose,
[05:09.68] Alone, but not worthless,
[05:14.85] And home ever calling us on.
[05:21.79] Oh, we've been waiting here for so long,
[05:28.25] All of our hands joined in hope,
[05:33.67] Holding the weight on the rope,
[05:38.75] All of us pilgrims.