The Pioneers Over C Lyrics - Singles - Van Der Graaf Generator

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 ...