Pilgrims (2005 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator

Sometimes you feel so far away

Distanced from all the action of the play

Unable to grasp significance

Marking the plot with diffident dismay

Stranded at centre stage

Scrabbling through your diary for a lost page

Unsure of the dream

Kicking a stone across the beach

Aching for love and comfort out of reach

The way ahead seems to be so bleak

There's no one with any friendship left to speak

Or show you any relation

Between your present and future situations

Lost to the dream

Away

Away

Away look to the future day

For hope some form of peace

Within the growing storm

I climb through the evening

Alive

And believing

In time

We shall all know our goals

And so finally home

For now

All is secret

Though how

Could I speak it

Allow me the dream in my eye

I've been waiting for such a long time

Just to see it at last

All of the hands tightly clasped

All of us pilgrims

Walking in silence down the coast

Merely to journey here hope is the most

Merely to know there is an end

All of us lovers brothers sisters friends

Hand in hand

Shining footprints on the wet sand

Lead to the dream

The time

Has come

The tide

Has almost run

And drained the deep I rise

From lifelong sleep

It seems such a long time

I've dreamed but now awake I

Can see we are pilgrims and so

Must walk this road

Unknown in our purpose

Alone

But not worthless

And home

Ever calling us on

We've been waiting here for so long

All of our hands joined in hope

Holding the weight on the rope

All of us pilgrims