Songtexte Ages of Man - Rick Wakeman

Dumb with astonishment and amazement
Which bordered on Stupefaction,
They fled the forest
Instinctively, they made toward 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 th cape,
They came ashore where a dark tunnel plunged deep into the 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