INANNA: Oh my lonely wild-growing tree

Your roots are strong, but, what about me?

Homeless, hopeless, how could this be?

Lost without my love, Dumuzi



Oh my lonely wild-growing tree

How I long for a palace by the sea

A temple of stone that moves the sky

Or I fear that my broken heart will die....



Oh, I'm feeling lost inside

Oh, I've got no place to hide

Oh, I can't forget their cruelty

Or the way they've taken my love from me



How could I be so blind

Fall for their tricks this time?



If I could have a place to call my own

Across the world I would not have to roam

To find the things that make me feel I have some worth

Like you, I'd plant myself firmly in the earth



ANU: My dear Inanna, I've heard your cries

They fill the clouds with tears that fall down from the skies

It's good to see you safe, but not in all this pain

Don't you understand, it's good to have you back again



INANNA: But what is life, my god, Anu our king

Without Dumuzi? My heart no longer sings

And I have nowhere to lay my head

Those that hate me have taken my golden bed



ANU: My great-great-granddaughter, do not despair

Brush the twigs and leaves out of your hair

A temple you shall have, with stones that touch the sky

For it hurts me so, to see you cry