Transcribed by Cory [ G5 C5 D5 C5 B5 D5 C5 B5 ] F#5 Ab5 Existence is a stage on which we pass, [ Ab5 A5 B5 C5 B5 A5 B5 ] D5 a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart; D5 G5 F5 it's hopeless, I know, but onward I must go F5 E5 and try to make a start n.C. at seeing something more E5 D5 than day to day survival, chased by final death. G5 F5 if I believed this the sum of the life to which we've come, E5 I wouldn't waste my breath. A5 Somehow, there must be more. B5 G5 C5 C5 C5 E5 There was a time when more was felt than known D5 but now, entrenched inside my sett, G5 F5 in light more mundane, thought rattles round my brain: E5 we live, we die...and yet? Riff 1: D5 C5 D5 C5 D5 C5 E5 C5 D5 C5 A5 -------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | --7-5---7-5---7-5-(b9)-5--7-5-2--- | --7-5---7-5---7-5-(b9)-5--7-5-2--- | --5-3---5-3---5-3-7--3--5-3-0--- | -------------------------------- | Riff 1 In the beginning there was order and destiny but now that path has reached the border and on our knees is no way to face the future, whatever it be. A5 G5 F5 Though the forces which hold us in place A5 G5 F5 last through eons in unruffled grace F5 E5 we, too, wear the face of creation. Riff 1 As anti-matter sucks and pulses periodically the bud unfolds, the bloom is dead, all space is living history. It seems as though time must betray us yet we're alive and though I see no God to save us, yet we survive D5 A5 through the centuries of progress D5 Bb5 which don't get us very far. A5 D5 A5 All illusion! All is bogus... D5 Bb5 G5 A5 we don't yet know what we are. Riff 1 Laughing, hoping, praying, joking, Son of Man, with lowered eyes but lifting hearts, we're grains of sand and though, in time, the sea may claim us for its own we are the rocks which root the future - on us it grows! D5 A5 We might not be there to share it D5 Bb5 A5 D5 A5 if eternity's a jest but I think that I can bear it D5 Bb5 G5 A5 if the next life is the best. (riff 1 with solo's) 4:17 C#5 F#5 C#5 F#5 F5 Bb5 C5 F5 G5 A5 G5 F5 Even if there is a heaven when we die, A5 G5 F5 endless bliss would be as meaningless as the lie A5 G5 that always comes as answer to the question F5 E5 "Why do we see through the eyes of creation?" B5 D5 F#sus F#5 [ D5 E5 ] B5 [ D5 C5 ] A5 B5 F#5 Adrift without a course, [ D5 E5 ] B5 B5 it's very lonely here, A5 our only conjecture A5 B5 F#5 what lies behind the dark. F#5 E5 Still, I find I can cling to a lifeline, B5 E5 E5 think of a lifetime which means more than my own one, E5 E5 B5 B5 dreams of a grander thing than we are. [ C#5 D5 ] F#5 E5 Time and Space hang heavy on my shoulders... B5 [ G5 A5 ] E5 when all life is over who can say E5 B5 B5 E5 no mutated force shall remain? E5 B5 F#5 B5 Though the towers of the city E5 B5 F#5 B5 are denied to we men of clay E5 B5 F#5 B5 F#5 Ab5 still we know we shall scale the heights some day. Ab5 ( E5 ) Frightened in the silence, frightened, but A5 E5 E5 B5 thinking ve - ry hard, E5 B5 F#5 B5 E5 let us make computations of the stars. E5 B5 E5 [Instrumental section] Riff 1 Older, wiser, sadder, blinder, watch us run: faster, longer, harder, stronger, now it comes... colour blisters, image splinters gravitate towards the centre, in final splendour disintegrate. D5 A5 The universe now beckons D5 Bb5 and Man, too, must take His place; A5 D5 A5 just a few last fleeting seconds D5 Bb5 G5 A5 to wander in the waste, A5 G5 F5 and the children who were ourselves move on, A5 G5 F5 reincarnation stills its now perfected song, A5 G5 F5 B5 B5 and at last we are free of the bonds of creation. E5 B5 E5 B5 All the jokers and gaolers, all the junkies and slavers too, E5 B5 Ab5 all the throng who have danced a merry tune... Ab5 E5 A5 E5 E5 B5 human we can all be, but Humanity we must rise above, E5 B5 E5 in the name of all faith and hope and love. E5 B5 E5 B5 There's a time for all pilgrims, and a time for the fakers too, E5 B5 Ab5 there's a time when we all will stand alone and nude, Ab5 E5 A5 E5 E5 B5 naked to the galaxies...naked, but clothed in the overview: E5 B5 E5 as we reach Childhood's End we start anew. E5 B5 And though dark is the highway, E5 B5 and the peak's distance breaks my heart, E5 B5 Ab5 for I never shall see it, still I play my part, E5 believing that what waits for us A5 E5 E5 B5 is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past. E5 B5 E5 In the death of mere Humans Life shall start!