This Is Where? - Isildurs Bane, Peter Hammill

Open and shut, action and cut

Story unfolding

Jungle drum beat, numbers repeat

River is flowing

You carry your past with you at last

Wherever you’re going

Back in the daylight

Making your way in Amazonia

And your friends will protect you now

Nature’s never your enemy

You’ll be back on familiar ground

With your head in the heights of the canopy

Count the cost, what you forgot

What you found, what you lost

It all adds up

In the end you’ve made your way through Amazonia

At the end of the day you made it through the jungle, matter of fact

You never lost your reason, senses intact

You made it through and you’re here to stay

Keeping your chin up and your prospects alive

Keeping your head up while your hopes never died

So you survived and you’re here to stay

In the end you’ve made sense of your Amazonia

In Amazonia

The wind is whistling around your ears

The winder landscape all a-glisten

Burned, those blank pages that you tore out from your diary

You can’t explain, the thoughts are swarming through your head

The lessons have all been read

The chapter’s closing

Your dreams and memories

Hopes and wishes are alive

All the strands of life combined

As in the heavens all the stars fall into line

Past and future intertwine

This is where we say goodbye

This is where