Here on a silent shore Awake on the nile A tall burning bridge was born on the back of a child I saw the walls go up and the sky take to flame and the words of a sermon was the ground we had laid A warm rolling wind came through and soon you would leave but that tall burning bridge came down and forced you to kneel By the light of a fire That burned from a spark to a pyre You will understand me now Like a ship on the sea Like a vessel tossed on these waves You will come to learn Down in the wild thorn in the dirt of the world You put your hand on a river with your feet in a mire All in this sudden rain All for this shower I was the weed in the promised land The bull and the flower For when the salt is the wound and the truth won't bend for the world You will come to answer me Like a ship on a sea You will answer me Like a vessel You will come to learn