You wake up in the suffocating out-of-it (Arabic ?) darkness

Dragging the river of your very soul

You emerge from troubled dreams

With your head held very gently

Think like clotted blood in a golden bone 



Who's promised you that ? Who's paying for it ? What's waiting out there ? 



The soldiers in the village were sleeping in the sun

The White Star Line comes steaming in upon it's midnight run

You're standing in the mirror, that reflection is insane

My love is the peace which takes away the pain 



All of you must fly out, out of this life of nightmares

Whose spirit breath surrounds you, in the blackened night

The horses are uneasy

The weapon is untried

You'll have to go on guessing 'til you reach the other side 



Who's promised you that ?

Who's paying for it ?

What's waiting out there ? 



The monkeys in the jungle are playing with a gun

The White Star Line comes steaming in upon it's midnight run

You're reaching for the lifebuoy which the night has neatly ??slain??

My love is the peace which takes away the pain 



Up you go, you're drifting

Up you go, you're floating

Over Tunisia

Over Spain

Over Germany

Over Poland

Over Scandinavia

Back Again 



Who's promised you that ?

Who's paying for it ?

What's waiting out there ? 



The notices and frescoes have faded in the sun

The White Star Line comes steaming in upon it's midnight run

You can't believe it's over with no loss or gain

My love is the peace which takes away the pain