The Departure

[Verse 1]
Sooner or later, each of us feels the need to escape
The country folk go to the city-
The city folk go to the country
Here on this mountaintop, we are a mere ten miles
From the city of eighty thousand people
Each of whom has fashioned a small cage of reality-
Out of the chaos of unreality
Each of whom lives his life by the steady reassuring ticking of the clock
Forgetting that the clock is merely man's dimension-
And that tomorrow is a creation of the human mind

Here comes a man from that city below-
Who is about to escape the cage of his reality

(Instrumental)

[Verse 2]
His departure was along the highway
With an exit sign that reads, "This way to escape."
The personal records of the rarest kind of human experience:
Man's adventure in the world of the unknown-
And that other world which lies just beyond