A haze of smoke rises in a leaden sky
It was dawn when I awoke
Picked up my things and said goodbye
A whistle blows, you look up and I am gone
Where I'm bound I do not know
The morning came for leaving
I will travel in shifting sands
Write my name in water
Subdue the tongue
Carve an image in passing clouds
Watch it drift and scatter
Like beads unstrung
And as the evening closes in
I'm wandering
At nine fifteen
We pulled up beside the quay
Into some town I've never seen
I am a stranger here and
I will travel in shifting sands
Write my name in water
Subdue the tongue
(Carve an image in passing clouds
Watch it drift and scatter
Like beads unstrung
I will travel in shifting sands
Write my name in water
Subdue the tongue)*2