After forty-five years of silence
I burnt all my possessions
Turned my back towards the flames
And walked into the desert
And in the witch’s footsteps
I crossed the scorching valleys
And up the barren plains
Into the mountain range
Into the great unknown
And under a black sky
The witch laid me down
While in fire dancing shadows
Silent ghosts gathered around
And the day broke through the night
Returned all color to the world
And I’ve never seen more clear
The road I was to take
Into the great unknown
Down for ever downward
Into the haunted forest
Where the stream springs clean and
Whispers life into our souls
I followed the river downstream
For three weeks and a day
Until I reached the sea
Where all lonely roads must end
And I walked to the water
Head held high with empty hands
I shrugged of all the doubts and fears
With the clothes in the sand
And the waves embraced me
It felt like coming home
A lifelong friend returned
After all those years alone
Into the great unknown
About Into The Great Unknown
“When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.” Thus Dante Alighieri starts his masterpiece ‘La Divina Commedia’. I have always been fascinated by this big medieval poem, by its symbolics and psychological insight. It inspired me to write Into The Great Unknown as a transition journey.
The lyric depicts a profound journey of personal transformation and self-discovery. The protagonist radically breaks with all earthly and material possessions and, just like Dante, embarks on a spiritual quest, following a mystical path through scorching valleys, barren plains, and mountain ranges into the great unknown.
Finally, at the oceans edge, the protagonist finds peace and belonging, shedding doubts and fears, as the waves embrace like old friends.
