No man alive this planet can illuminate your path No guide that came before can show the way beyond the pass No footprints on the trail for you to follow in the tracks For you to make it there you have to leave without the map And no amount of pleading can release you from the trap There’s no degree of toil that can serve to bridge the gap You can trek across the plains without much weight upon your back But if you’re tortured in your mind, you will crumble from the facts So flee the shelter for the storm before the caves collapse I’ve stood among them like a ghost they fail to recognize Amidst the cattle and the wolves that roam the countryside Stood between the trenches where the sound of battle cried Where reason went to die along the ground where Hell and Earth collide And now I stand where fortune shifts and channels open wide Where essence flows within these rivers under open sky I’m in that place where few have been though many tried So if you stand for something, stand for something more than simply standing by This that gem to find This that certain kind This the truth that hides This is that great divide Break out from that tomb That empty room I’ve been inside No method, no plans No direction to advance Just step across that line that’s in the sand This is the land of no man