[04:48.00]Music by Elton John
[04:48.00]Lyrics by Tim Rice
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[04:48.00]Take me in my dreams recurring
[04:48.00]Cheerful as a childhood dance
[04:48.00]Into one more taste of freedom
[04:48.00]One more longing backward glance
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[04:48.00]In the sway of somber music
[04:48.00]I shall never, never understand
[04:48.00]Let me slip into the sweeter
[04:48.00]Chorus of that other land
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[04:48.00]The gods love Nubia, the beautiful, the golden
[04:48.00]The radiant, the fertile, the gentle and the blessed
[04:48.00]The pain of Nubia is only of the moment
[04:48.00]The desolate, the suffering, the plundered, the oppressed
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[04:48.00]The gods love Nubia, the glorious creation
[04:48.00]The songs roll sweetly across the harvest plain
[04:48.00]The tears of Nubia, a passing aberration
[04:48.00]They wash into the river and are never cried again
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[04:48.00]The gods love Nubia, we have to keep believing
[04:48.00]The scattered and divided, we are still it's heart
[04:48.00]The fall of Nubia, ephemeral and fleeting
[04:48.00]The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn apart