Oh, God of earth and altar   Bow down and hear our cry   Our earthly rulers falter   Our people drift and die      The walls of gold entomb us   The swords of scorn divide   Take not thy thunder from us   Take away our pride      Just a babe in a black abyss   No reason for a place like this   Walls are cold, souls cry out in pain      An easy way for the blind to go   A clever path for the fools who know   The secret of the hanged man, the smile on his lips      The light of the blind, you'll see   The venom tears my spine   The eyes of the Nile are opening, you'll see      Came to me with a serpents kiss   As the eye of the sun rose on her lips   Moonlight catches silver tears that I cry      So we lay in a black embrace   And the seed is sown in a holy place   And I watched and I waited for the dawn, oh      The light of the blind, you'll see   The venom tears my spine   The eyes of the Nile are opening, you'll see      Bind all of us together   Ablaze with hope and pain   No storm or heavy weather   Will rock the boat you'll see      The time has come to close your eyes   Still the wind and rain   For the one who will be king   The watcher in the ring      It is you, oh   Oh oh, you