Childlike Faith in Childhood’s End Van der Graaf Generator

[Verse 1]
Existence is a stage on which we pass
A sleepwalk trick for mind and heart;
It's hopeless, I know, but onward I must go
And try to make a start
At seeing something more
Than day to day survival, chased by final death
If I believed this the sum of the life to which we've come
I wouldn't waste my breath
Somehow, there must be more

[Verse 2]
There was a time when more was felt than known
But now, entrenched inside my sett
In light more mundane, thought rattles round my brain:
We live, we die... and yet?

[Segue]
In the beginning there was order and destiny
But now that path has reached the border
And on our knees is no way to face the future, whatever it be
Though the forces which hold us in place
Last through eons in unruffled grace
We, too, wear the face of creation

[Verse 3]
As anti-matter sucks and pulses periodically
The bud unfolds, the bloom is dead, all space is living history
It seems as though time must betray us yet we're alive
And though I see no God to save us, yet we survive
Through the centuries of progress
Which don't get us very far
All illusion! All is bogus...
We don't yet know what we are