When all is whittled By wind, sand or flame Over seas and centuries They’ll call my name They’ll talk of empire Sketch the mark of my hand Draft the arteries and revelries That lay beneath the sands
When all is whittled By wind, sand or flame Over seas and centuries They’ll call my name And it will carry through the air and filter through the land Through the bones of the thousands that lay beneath the sands
The rivers rise Borders shaking, hands up reaching high The fires climb Foundations crumble, levelled side by side All that’s left, Endless sand stretching to the sky With nothing in between for miles and miles
When all is whittled By wind, sand or flame Over seas and centuries They’ll call my name But they’ll know not of my voice Nor of the mark of my hand Just a lone pair of ankles creeping through the sand