In the sand listening to the water song While the silent sand dissolves us Take my hand silent too we'll drift along Til the lotus man absolves us And we'll whittle down the hours Throw away the days We'll ring our world with flowers While the other world decays In the night listening to the city sound Of the people who ignore us We'll take flight with the stars, ether bound Only galaxies to bore us And we'll whittle down the hours Throw away the days We'll ring our world with flowers While the other world decays In the dawn listening to the distant drums And the distant cannon firing We'll be gone long before the battle comes Just the thought of war is tiring And we'll whittle down the hours Throw away the days We'll ring our world with flowers While the other world decays