Waking up, regreting courses, memories of an upright world And the splinters become khat-shrubs, easy meed, shapeless and swirled And the days are spritting fires, beacons for abanoned aims And the fever is rising higher, is burning faces and burning names Keep me and hold me, solve me from the glow Hold me and keep me, take away the woe... And I'm creeping through the oceans, empty nests in place of eyes In my veins the hydra is barkling, thirsty for a carthatic lyse And the clouds are spritting malice, cruelties die of broken hearts A sigh is leaving the pleasure palace, down to where the circle starts.... Keep me and hold me, solve me from the truth Hold me and keep me, take away the ruth... Through the veils of world and heaven's bend Lead me to the water's end And through days of ghost and their mirrored land Lead me to the water's end And through marble woods, on ships of sand Lead me to the water's end And through all the past, held by your hand Lead me to the water's end Water's end...