Khan [Progressive Rock]

I need you and you need me
Also I need to be free
Free as the word free can mean
To stand secure outside this dream
Starstruck moonman looks so blind
You're still a slave within your mind
All this time you have not guessed
Where you are bound
Which way you're heading
How you can stop feeling confused

Follow the star that is moving so slowly
Flow in its river of light and you'll see
That you have found
What you've been searching
Come back and help us to regain

We escaped from the city
Miles and miles we did flee
Through the endless forest
To the edge of the sea
It was as though the world was ours
Lying on a deserted beach
Out of reach
Out of their reach

I could see you much clearer
As we strode by the shore
All the peace all around us
Seemed impossibly pure
And then the sun shone through the clouds
Touched us with its magnificent beam
Made us clean
Made us feel so clean

On our island of safety
From the alien crowd
Of the city of madness
Could we really be sure
That the peace would still remain
Sealed away from insanity
We shall see
We shall see

Looking at the ground
I'm crying for the sky
I know I can't hope to go where I can't be found
But when I close my eyes I start to fly

The sun burns down on me
I'm praying he'll take me away
So very much higher than the peaks above me
I open myself, my spirit is free and I start to fly

As a leaf upon the breeze
Higher than the chains of mortal man
Surrounded by the wonders of a life I saw but never knew
Revealed the hazy secrets of the mountain man
Yet soon as I am here I have to go

The sun burns down on me
I'm praying he'll take me away
So very much higher than the peaks above me
I open myself, my spirit is free and I start to fly

Don't you know, don't you know that I can fly?
Don't you know, don't you know that I can fly?
Don't you know?
(repeat to fade)

We look ahead for miles down our avenue of light
We motor past the airport in the flatness of the night
Its fairy beads reflected in the shining of your eye

Can it be that there's so many
That have been through this whole scene before?
Staring at the ground, for I knew not what to do
I turned full around and found myself in you

The water looks so placid to deny that it's a threat
Our weary faces smiling with the energy that's left
Your flowing now has reached me and I feel I've got to stay

There's no need for a reason
We switched off our thinking hours ago
Staring at the ground, for I knew not what to do
I turned full around and found myself in you

Still we're driving onward, moving steady as a plane
Moonbug cars flash past us as we head the other way
Across the dyke of worry to a Nederlander dream

Now the morning opens slowly
On what seems a very special day
Staring at the ground, for I knew not what to do
I turned full around and found myself in you

Open your eyes if you dare
Future comes, all you know is that you'll share
Suns and moons, many cycles, miles of days
Your love shines like a beacon through the haze

Your twin lives twined together
Jigsaw, fit, snap together
Your twin heads crowned together ?
King and Queen
An extra gene

Can your words cope with infinity?
You must communicate it perfectly
Don't you think you can surely make it now?
You don't need anyone to tell you how

Your twin lives twined together
Jigsaw, fit, snap together
Your twin heads crowned together ?
King and Queen
An extra gene

(repeat complete lyrics)

Hollow stone
Early morning you slip out the window
And glide through the dew
All alone
Back a thousand years

And you know there is no answer
They can give you, they can give you
For the word's not there for them to choose

After all
You are only a molecule drifting
An atom afloat
As you fall
Into space from your lonely shell of fear

You raise your hands and gaze in wonder
At a world you have seen somewhere before

Only you can see the men of wisdom
Moving slowly on together
Sun shines through the stone but once a year
Ceremony now will start anew

And so you sit beneath the linden tree
Staring ghostly at the altar
And all the problems that perplex you so
Dissolve and vanish deep into the water

Tired of asking who you are
Or what you'll be a millisecond after
As you plunge back into laughter now
Dancing and calling out your name

And so you sit beneath the linden tree
Staring ghostly at the altar
And all the problems that perplex you so
Dissolve and vanish deep into the water

Can you see an image on the inside of my eye?
Is it always straight and never changing?
Reflecting all the sadness of a life turned upside-down
Is it you or just a total stranger?
Unseeing eyes stare so blank at the picture

Wipe the dust from your eyes
See life all around you
Take the strength in your hands
Break the chains and realise
Wipe the dust from your eyes
See life all around you
Take the strength in your hands
Break the chains and realise you're free

You're waiting like a child to be taken by the hand
In circles that lead back to where they started
For you could read a book without looking at the words
If you had written all the chapters to it
Unseeing eyes stare so blank at the picture

Wipe the dust from your eyes
See life all around you
Take the strength in your hands
Break the chains and realise
Wipe the dust from your eyes
See life all around you
Take the strength in your hands
Break the chains and realise you're free

Wipe the dust from your eyes
See life all around you
Take the strength in your hands
Break the chains and realise
(repeat)

Looking at the ground
I'm crying for the sky
I know I can't hope to go where I can't be found
But when I close my eyes I start to fly

The sun burns down on me
I'm praying he'll take me away
So very much higher than the peaks above me
I open myself, my spirit is free and I start to fly

As a leaf upon the breeze
Higher than the chains of mortal man
Surrounded by the wonders of a life I saw but never knew
Revealed the hazy secrets of the mountain man
Yet soon as I am here I have to go

The sun burns down on me
I'm praying he'll take me away
So very much higher than the peaks above me
I open myself, my spirit is free and I start to fly

Don't you know, don't you know that I can fly?
Don't you know, don't you know that I can fly?
Don't you know?
(repeat to fade)