After the Fire - Pilgrim lyrics

One day as I lay down to rest In a den for my safe keeping I closed my eyelids for the best And I quickly fell to sleeping Was then I had the strangest dream Which I shall now forthtell All of a man who lived in fear For the thought of going to Hell I saw him reading from a book And his legs they were a-shaking The more he read the more he shook Till I knew his heart was breaking But I could not ask why he wept so As I said, I was only dreaming But I'm sure that for some means of escape Was the way his mind was scheming He looked around this way and that As if to make a run But the burden that was on his back It surely weighed him down And as he wept he cried out "What must I do to be saved And to stop this burden from dragging me down Even further than the grave?" Evangelist Head over there, you'll find a gate Keep the light in your eye That is the way of your escape That is the way you must Head over there, you'll find a gate Keep the light in your eye That is the way of your escape That is the way you must fly Pilgrim So I journeyed as a pilgrim Never to return Many dangers lay before me Lessons I must learn Up the highway of salvation My burden there I lost Fell away and rolled right from me When I saw the cross Then on an on I bravely went Through the "Valley of Humiliation" Was there I fought for my life With the one that I used to serve Then the "Valley of the Shadow Of d**h" it hung over me I never thought that I'd see the light of day again Then I found a friend, oh what a friend We traveled together Till at "Vanity Fair" they did him in But somehow I got away and I quickly met with another And together we traveled right to the end But we strayed from the way And got caught by the "Giant of Despair" He kept us and beat us, I never thought We'd get out of there. But we did And we reached the "Delectable Mountains" And across the "Enchanted Ground" We saw the city that was our desire! Arrival Open the gates of the city wide Welcome home Pilgrim, won't you step inside Open the gates of the city wide Welcome home Pilgrim - come inside Open the gates of the city wide Welcome home Pilgrim, welcome home Open the gates of the city wide Welcome home, welcome home, welcome home Welcome home