I see you now and then in dreams, your voice sounds just like it used to,
I know you better than I knew you then, all I can say is, “I love you,”
I thought our days were commonplace, thought they would number in millions,
Now there’s only the aftertaste of circumstance that can’t pass this way again.
Treasure of the broken land,
Parched earth, give up your captive ones,
Waiting wind of Gabriel, blow soon upon our hollow bones.
I saw the city at its tortured worst, and you were outside the walls there,
You were relieved of a lifelong thirst, I was dry at the fountain,
I knew that you could see my shame, but you were eyeless and sparing,
I awoke when you called my name, I felt the curtain tearing,
I awoke when you called my name, I felt the curtain tearing.
Treasure of the broken land,
Parched earth, give up your captive ones,
Waiting wind of Gabriel, blow soon upon the hollow bones
All the way to make it,
All the way to make it.
I can melt the clock hands down, but only in my memory,
Nobody gets the second chance to be the friend they meant to be,
I see you now and then in dreams, your voice sounds just like it used to,
I believe I will hear it again,
God, how I love you.
Treasure of the broken land,
Parched earth, give up your captive ones,
Waiting wind of Gabriel, blow soon upon the hollow bones,
Treasure of the broken land,
Parched earth, give up your captive ones,
Waiting wind of Gabriel, blow soon upon our hollow bones.
Blow soon upon the hollow bones.
All the way to make it,
All the way to make it,
All the way to make it,
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