Van der Graaf Generator — Pilgrims

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from the album Still Life (1976).

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Chorus Line 2 example:

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 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 —
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.

Sax solo over Chorus chords till end.