Pioneers Over C - Van Der Graaf Generator

We left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies,

reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited

Somebody help me I’m falling, somebody help me, I’m falling down

Into sky, into earth, into sky, into earth …

It is so dark around, no life, no hope, no sound

no chance of seeing home again …

The universe is on fire, exploding without flame.

We are the lost ones;

we are the pioneers;

we are the lost ones

We are the ones they are going to build a statue for

ten centuries ago or were going to fifteen forward …

One Last brief whisper in our loved ones’ears

to reassure them and to pierce the fear

standing at controls then still unknown we told the world we were

about to go Somebody help me I’m missing, somebody help me I’m missing now

touch with my mind, I have no frame,

touch with my mind, I have no frame …

Well now where is the time and who the hell am I,

here floating in an aimless way?

No-one knows where we are, they can’t feel us precisely.

There is no fear here.

How can such a thing exist in a place where living and knowing

and being have never been heard of?

Doomed to vanish in the flickering light,

disappearing to a darker night,

doomed to vanish in a living death, living anti-matter, anti-breath

Somebody help me I’m losing, somebody help me, I’m losing now

people around, there’s no-one to touch,

no people around, no-one to touch.

I am now quite alone, part of a vacant time-zone,

here floating in the void,

only dimly aware of existence, a dimly existing awareness,

I am the lost one, I am the one you fear, I am the lost one,

I am the one who went up into space, or stayed where I was,

or didn’t exist in the first place …