Going down the road to nowhere / I'm always keeping to myself
Out'ta the shadows comes a raggedy man / Bent and filthy lookin' kinda rough
I look away, I'm tryin' not to stare / Commit my crime of feelin' pity and disgust
He forces his way directly into my path / In the grip of his eyes I have been caught
He says, "Son, I can see forever
I wanna show you the way
You can have powers out of this world
The price is in the words I say"
I push him away and ask him, "Are you for real"
With ice in his gaze he says, "You'll see it for yourself"
Without care or reason, I will accept / Humor the man and back away - he's dangerous
All at once a light as bright as the sun / Consumes the man - only ashes as evidence
Then I realize that a change has come over me / Its subtlety has aroused a waking sense
So I cry, "I can see forever
I understand everything
I have the universe inside my grasp
And now I see what he means"
I live for centuries with all of man's answers / But noone hears - I'm no more than a lunatic
There's nothing new to live for - no day to look forward to
Except the end, and I know what I have to do
I'll say, "son, I can see forever
I wanna show you the way
You can have powers out of this world
The price is in the words I say."
I can see forever....