Many days and months have I waited for the train To leave this city far behind, seek country once again The passengers sit talking all through the afternoon And the porter waltzes quietly with a honey-colored broom Well life in a box canyon, it don't get you very much Just a lizard and the stone at where he'll sleep I go on daydreaming though I'm really out of touch And the soldier lies forgotten in the keep Once I had a woman, she reminded me of the wind And although it was an accident I'd asked the gods to win And they granted me one favor 'fore they tore the veil away And I don't know what I've lost or won, I don't even know today Each day the children come and they stand around the court Deciding what is pleasure and when to play When I was but one of them, well I knew how to sing Tell me what are my children to say Well life in a box canyon, it don't get you very much Just a lizard and the stone at where he'll sleep I go on daydreaming though I'm really out of touch And the soldier lies forgotten in the keep