By the time the luminous descent of the bright star unfolds

And tablets of strangelove are shattered and bruised

By the time the oleander is falling from bloom

And tears of the crocodile water the sun



By the time you make up your mind

I ever you do

I hear the drums of heaven too

By the time you make up your mind

I ever you do

I hear the drums of heaven too



By the time paradise alley is littered with rust

And the arc of dayglo is curtained in gloom,

By the time kidney bone cities are bcrumbling to dust

And the empires and all of the mirates burn



Ice on the mountain

Wind and the dust storm

Sails in the desert

It's old and exploding

Seers and the prophets

Drums of heaven