The Pilgrim

Album: A Matter of Life and Death (2006)
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  • The keys to death and hell
    The ailing kingdom doomed to fail
    The bonds of sin and heart will break
    The pilgrims course will take

    Quelling the devils might
    And ready for eternal fight
    Aching limbs and fainting soul
    Holy battles take their toll

    Liberty and hope divine
    Changing the water into wine
    So to you we bid farewell
    Kingdom of heaven to hell

    Spirit holy, life eternal
    Raise me up, take me home
    Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset
    Onward journey begun

    To courage find and gracious will
    Deliver good from ill
    Clean the water clean our guilt
    With us do what you will

    Then will my judge appear
    Bear no false angel that I hear
    For only then I will confess
    To my eternal hell

    Now give us our holy sign
    Changing the water into wine
    So to you we bid farewell
    Kingdom of heaven to hell

    Spirit holy, life eternal
    Raise me up take me home
    Pilgrim sunrise pagan sunset
    Onward journey begun

    Now give us our holy sign
    Changing the water into wine
    So to you we bid farewell
    Kingdom of heaven to hell

    Spirit holy, life eternal
    Raise me up, take me home
    Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset
    Onward journey begun

    Spirit holy, life eternal
    Raise me up, take me home
    Pilgrim sunrise, pagan sunset
    Onward journey begun Writer/s: Janick Gers, Stephen Percy Harris
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Sillyrabbit from San Antonio, TxThis song is a reference to the Crusades. Christians and Muslims who journey to visit the Holy Lands of Jerusalem or Mecca, respectively, are referred to as pilgrims. The lines "Pilgrim sunrise pagan sunset" and "kingdom of heaven to hell" may be alluding to the Christian exodus from Jerusalem in the 12th century. The line may also be a referece to the movie "Kingdom of Heaven" which also dealt with the story of one of the Crusades.
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