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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:03] There was a time

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

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

[00:01:13] In light more mundane

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

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

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

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

[00:01:36] And on our knees

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:37] Yetl we survive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:22] On us it grows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:05:08] Adrift without a course

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

[00:05:23] Our only conjecture

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

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

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

[00:05:51] Than my own one

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:06:49] The heights some day

[00:06:54] Frightened in the silence

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:09:17] The universe now beckons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:10:08] And slavers too

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:10:55] And nude

[00:10:58] Naked to the galaxies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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