Time Within Time: The Ebbing Tide/the Electric Storm Lyrics - Singles - Rick Wakeman

TIME WITHIN TIME 

a. THE EBBING TIDE 

The ebbing tide eventually carried them onto a small island strewn with giant turtle shells, on the far 

side of which a narrow strait of water flowed. 

This, the final gulf between them and the subterranean mainland. 

The island appeared alive, as geysers of hot steams forced their way through crevasses in the salacious 

sandstone, creating hot springs wherever the ground had sunk to form natural basins. 

They watched in fascination as plumes of vapour rose majestically into their air, creating heavily-laden 

clouds from which each returning droplet assumed the prismatic colours of the rainbow. 

As the warm humid air gently eased the paint of their aching limbs, the tree weary travellers fell exhausted 

to the ground, where they slept. 

As they slept, dreamed of the world they were now part of. 

A world within a world. 

Time within time. 

A dream within dreams. 

b. THE ELECTRIC STORM 

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They were awakened by the noise of an electric storm. 

The waves had destroyed their raft and the sea was a raging torrent, racing at great speed along the 

strait, which now took on the appearance of rapids. 

Each talking refuge inside one of the giant turtle shells, their chanses of survival lessened by each 

passing second as hughe waves swept them along the narrow strait toward an enormous gaping black hole, 

into which the anguished water poured at an alarming rate. 

All around them forked streaks of lighting plunged and attacked in every direction, some of which 

metamorphosed into globes of fire, which, for inexplicable reasons beyond their understanding, began to 

chase the turtle shells as they plunged violently, one by one, into the black hole. 

After falling for what seemed an eternity, they were suddenly shot sideways at terrific velocity into 

a tunnel which had barely enough room to spare between the shell and the ceiling above their heads. 

Although they were many languages beneath the earth's crust, the tunnel behind them was bathed in 

white blinding light, as, despite their being given both guidance and propulsion of great speed by the rapid 

flow of water, the globes od fire had chosen the same route. 

The chase was on as they prepared for the ride of their lives. 

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