The Awakening

by Hawkwind

From the album: Space Ritual

Track 4 of 21 on Space Ritual (1973).

Duration: 01:34

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Lyrics for The Awakening

I would rather the fire-storms of atmospheres Than this cruel descent from a thousand years of dreams Into the starkness of the capsule Where two of our crew still lie suspended cool In their tombs of sleep. The nagging choirs of memory The tubes and wires worming from their flesh To machinery I would have to cut... Such midwifery is but one Function of the leader here Floating in a sac of fluid dark A clear century Of space away from Earth While one man stirs from the trauma of his birth Attending to the hypno-tapes Assuring him that this was reality However grim Our journey's end. Landing itself was nothing We touched upon a shelf of rock Selected by The automind and left a galaxy of dreams behind...

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  2. Born to Go
  3. Down Through the Night
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  5. Lord of Light
  6. The Black Corridor
  7. Space Is Deep
  8. Electronic No 1
  9. Orgone Accumulator
  10. Upside Down
  11. 10 Seconds of Forever
  12. Brainstorm
  13. Seven by Seven
  14. Sonic Attack
  15. Time We Left This World Today
  16. Master of the Universe
  17. Welcome to the Future
  18. You Shouldn't Do That - Live, 2007 Version
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  20. Time We Left This World Today
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