[00:00.417]Take me in my dreams recurring[00:10.057]Cheerful as a childhood dance[00:19.487]Into one more taste of freedom[00:28.499]One more longing backward glance[00:36.832]In the sway of somber music[00:44.408]I shall never, never understand[00:52.192]Let me slip into the sweeter[00:59.898]Chorus of that other land[01:08.284]The gods love Nubia[01:12.150]The beautiful, the golden[01:15.859]The radiant, the fertile[01:19.542]The gentle and the blessed[01:23.252]The pain of Nubia[01:26.700]Is only of the moment[01:30.357]The desolate the suffering[01:33.910]The plundered, the oppressed[01:37.619]The gods love Nubia[01:40.884]Their glorious creation[01:44.437]The songs roll sweetly[01:48.016]Across the harvest plain[01:51.333]The tears of Nubia[01:54.782]A passing aberration[01:58.334]They wash into the river[02:01.626]And are never cried again[02:05.361]The gods love Nubia[02:08.914]We have to keep believing[02:12.336]The scattered and divided[02:15.653]We are still its heart[02:19.467]The fall of Nubia[02:22.785]Ephemeral and fleeting[02:26.364]The spirit always burning[02:29.315]Though the flesh is torn apart[02:34.540]Take me in my dreams recurring[02:41.358]Cheerful as a childhood dance[02:48.071]Into one more taste of freedom[02:54.785]One more longing backward glance[03:02.230]The gods love Nubia[03:05.443]The beautiful, the golden[03:08.891]The radiant, the fertile[03:12.600]The gentle and the blessed[03:16.101]The pain of Nubia[03:19.288]Is only for the moment[03:22.945]The desolate the suffering[03:26.602]The plundered, the oppressed[03:29.789]The gods love Nubia[03:33.289]We have to keep believing[03:37.025]Though scattered and divided[03:40.604]We are still it's heart[03:43.973]The fall of Nubia[03:47.552]Ephemeral and fleeting[03:50.896]The spirit always burning[03:53.665]Though the flesh is torn apart[03:57.635]My spirit will keep on burning[04:01.057]Though the flesh is torn -[04:08.502]- Apart[04:12.447]Take me in my dreams recurring[04:19.134]One more longing backward glance