Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Forest, artist - Rick Wakeman. Date of issue: 19.06.2014
Song language: English
The Forest |
| Journey on through ages gone, to the centre of the earth |
| Past rocks of quartz and granite, which gave mother nature birth |
| Burial ground of ancient man, his life no more is seen, |
| A journey through his time unknown, I wonder where he’s been |
| Wonder where he’s been, wonder where he’s been, wonder where he’s been |
| The shore now gone behind the hills, a forest in our sight, |
| Rocks and distant mountains, bathed in waves of blinding light |
| Forests from far gone time, no living man has seen, |
| A private prehistoric world, for you and I a dream |
| Brownish hue dicates my eye, no colour hides their fear, |
| Flowers faded, dull and cold, now bleached by atmosphere |
| Creatures twisting under trees, huge monsters soaked with rage |
| Hidden deep below our earth, a frightening, bygone age |
| Their shepherd came, now long extinct, a huge primeval man |
| The three men filled with disbelief, just turned as one and ran |
| NARRATION |
| Narration 8 |
| Dumb with astonishment and amazement which bordered on |
| stupefaction, they fled the forest. |
| Instinctively, they made |
| towards the Lidenbrook Sea. |
| Discovering a rusty dagger on the |
| beach, and the carved initials of the explorer before them on a |
| slab of granite, they realised that thay were once again treading |
| the route of Arne Saknussemm. |
| Following a short sea journey around |
| a cape, they came ashore where a dark tunnel plunged deep into |
| rock. |
| Venturing down, their progress was halted by a piece of rock |
| blocking their way. |
| After deciding to blow their way through, and |
| setting the charge, they put out to sea for safety. |
| With the |
| explosion, the rocks before them opened like a curtain, and a |
| bottomless pit appeared in the shore. |
| The explosion had caused an |
| earthquake, the abyss had opened up, and the sea was pouring into |
| it. |
| Down and down they plunged into the huge gallery, but on |
| regaining their senses found their raft rising at tremendous |
| speed. |
| Trapped in the shaft of an active volcano they rose through |
| the ages of man to be finally expelled out on a mountain-side |
| riddled with tiny lava streams. |
| Their journey was completed and |
| they found themselves 3000 miles from their original starting |
| point in Iceland. |
| They had entered by one volcano and they had |
| come out by another. |
| With the blue mountains of Calabria in the |
| east they walked away from the mountain that had returned them. |
| The frightening Mount Etna. |