Lyrics Still In The Dark - Peter Hammill

Still In The Dark

Oh, brighter than a thousand suns
The march towards the stars
On the wheel, on the car
Off the plane, off the planet
And on in the search
Yes, we pray in the dark in the Sciences' church
Upon the tree of knowledge
The fruit is bitter-sweet;
To the man in the street
All its myriad benefits Science confers
But we’re still in the dark, much as we always were
Run your mind down the Sciences;
None of them lay claim to show more than a part
But still we shout out what we know…
The silence is enough to break the mortal heart
So bow down in adoration to the wonder that is man;
We have learned all we can
We explore every frontier that straddles our way
But we’re still in the dark, though we now call it day
No, there is no answer
There is no eternal proof
There is no timeless truth;
Though we learn to encompass yet more with the eye
We are still in the dark when it comes to the why
We are still in the dark
Bedded down
And so we still lie