The Forest Songtext
von Rick Wakeman

Brownish hue dictates my eye
No colour hides their fear
Flowers faded, dull and cold
Now bleached by atmosphere

Creatures twisting under trees
Huge monsters soaked with rage
Hidden deep below are others
Frightened by grown age
The shepherd came, now long extinct
A huge cry made the land
The three men fell with disbelief
Just turned eyes white and red

Dumb with astonishment and amazement which bordered on stupefaction

They fled the forest. Instinctively they made towards the Lyddenbrook


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
They were once again treading the route of Arne Saknussemm. Following
A short sea journey around a cape, they came ashore where a dark

Tunnel plunged deep into 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 mountainside riddled
With tiny lava streams. Their journey was completed and they found
Themselves three thousand 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