After The Fire - Pilgrim lyrics

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One day as I lay down to rest

In a den for my safe keeping

I closed my eyelids for the best

And I quickly fell to sleeping

Was then I had the strangest dream

Which I shall now forthtell

All of a man who lived in fear

For the thought of going to hell!

I saw him reading from a book

And his legs they were a-shaking

The more he read the more he shook

Till I knew his heart was breaking

But I could not ask why he wept so

As I said, I was only dreaming

But I'm sure that for some means of escape

Was the way his mind was scheming

He looked around this way and that

As if to make a run

But the burden that was on his back

It surely weighed him down

And as he wept he cried out

"What must I do to be saved,

And to stop this burden from dragging me down

Even further than the grave?"

Evangelist

Head over there, you'll find a gate

Keep the light in your eye

That is the way of your escape

That is the way you must...

Head over there, you'll find a gate

Keep the light in your eye

That is the way of your escape

That is the way you must ... fly

Pilgrim

So I journeyed as a pilgrim

Never to return

Many dangers lay before me

Lessons I must learn

Up the highway of salvation

My burden there I lost

Fell away and rolled right from me

When I saw the cross

Then on an on I bravely went

Through the "Valley of Humiliation"

Was there I fought for my life

With the one that I used to serve

Then the "Valley of the Shadow

Of Death" it hung over me

I never thought that I'd see the light of day again

Then I found a friend, oh what a friend

We travelled together

Till at "Vanity Fair" they did him in

But somehow I got away and I quickly met with another

And together we travelled right to the end

But we strayed from the way

And got caught by the "Giant of Despair"

He kept us and beat us, I never thought

We'd get out of there. But we did

And we reached the "Delectable Mountains"

And across the "Enchanted Ground"

We saw the city that was our desire!

Arrival

Open the gates of the city wide

Welcome home Pilgrim, won't you step inside

Open the gates of the city wide

Welcome home Pilgrim - come inside

Open the gates of the city wide

Welcome home Pilgrim, welcome home

Open the gates of the city wide

Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home