There, on a lonely desert hilltop The pilgrims huddle closer Waiting for a sign, the coming silver shrine The arc of space and time Truth, oh, the truth
Laughing in the hiding bush There's a sinister game that children play When they get to the end of each school day They spend their lives getting ready
There's a sinister game That children play...Hey...Hey When they get to the end Of each schoolday...Ha...Ha They spand their lives Getting ready for the
Satan has left his killing floor So this is dream time and all is quiet So this is dream time and all is night You've never been held by the hand of
Bring the toys out for the boys Let the children make their noise See the monsters in their metal cages Turn the lights down in your soul Cut the power
Here, in a church, a small boy is kneeling He prays to a god he does not know, he cannot feel All of his sins of childhood he will remember He will not
In the darkness the raven's head In the courtyard clothed in fear I see gates that are openin' There's only one way out of here Daylight has gone The
Professor Quatermass, where are you? Professor Quatermass, where are you? Mankind returns to the stars But sometimes the stars return to mankind Didn
Hey, you wait, cringin' in the dark (Hey) You create, what you always fear A puppet of hatred, dishin' out poison You use, me for bait, your beggin' bowl
Distant earth rise long ago Lingers at the borders of our minds Mysteries spinning in the dark In the frozen emptiness of time We were lost and we never
No lies, no angels, no lies, no angels No lies, no angels, no lies, no angels No Heaven, no Heaven, no lies No lies, no angels, no Heaven No lies, no
I'm vacuum breathing and open-mouthed As the red shift fills my eyes Minister, my promises as her shadow cuts the day away I remember you as you walked
(Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh) (Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh) The ashes drift away, smoke of our confusion We turn our frightened faces
Is this a citadel? Is this a prison cell? Who sits at my right hand now? Who's watching me now? Who made us live this way? When do I get my say? Automation
How many lifetimes? How many beginnings? How many lovers? How many threats? How many religions to keep us all guessing? Give me a reason, why? Hell is
Say goodbye to earth's children On a sleigh ride to the moon Blue and white in the distance Not sorry I'm leaving you Now and then the earthrise fills
A 100 years of toil and pain To pull a stone upright again Uproot from its mountain home Taken to this sacred circle Is there a secret in the stone?