Arabesque

Wandering the low lands and high plains
 Been crossing the mountains
 Sailing the sea
 Anxiety-free
 Been craving for rain in the desert
 Saw bleak nights devour
 The day's blazing heat oh
 A light burning out
 Tied to the canon's apron
 Hie in obedience to the scantiness of time
 Meant to astound
 Entangled in adornment
 An ornament sublime
 Dreams allayed
 No weakness gets betrayed
 Right on
 Swaying to the sacred fanfares
 Don't you stop to run
 From paradise to despair
 Yeah, strident voices
 Now why don't you
 Why do you slow down right on
 Don't speak, don't wonder
 That way, this way, don't walk astray
 Welcome to the arabesque
 Ooh, ooh, ooh
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 Aah, aah, aah, aah, aah
 You beat up against the wind and the flow
 Concealing your tears
 With the sweat from your brow
 No one see's them, they're next to you
 Deride them, despite they're the faithful
 The only, the true, oh, aah
 Got a navigation map and aspiration
 If only that good old chart
 Would show the seas ya gonna sail
 Run up and down
 Until you stand to reason
 Faithfully you break
 Dreams aligned
 Stalwartly confined
 Right on
 Swaying to the sacred fanfares
 Don't you stop to run
 To the promised land in despair
 Voices screaming
 Now why don't you
 Why do you slow down
 Right on don't speak, don't wonder
 That way, this way don't walk astray
 Welcome to the arabesque
 Toss and turn all night
 Got to get it right
 Is it just a dream
 Or runaway fantasy
 Reverie out of kilter
 Got to carry on
 Go on, play along
 Don't you let them down
 As they help you drown
 Your feelings in a philtre
 I want the turmoil to go away
 And slowly I'd trouble no more
 Like a grain the wild wind blows away
 From a whispering, blistering shore
 If you'd look back at the shore through my eyes
 Having sailed just a mile in my shell
 Hold to think and maybe feel what it's like
 At the deep end of slightly unwell
 Got to carry on
 Must be going strong
 Wipe away the tears
 Put your vizard on
 Welcome to the creep show
 Welcome to the freak show
 And I'm dreaming of mother love
 And colouring outside the lines like a child
 Beyond growing up
 And the pain that goes along with it
 To escape these confines
 Ooooh, no breath for pretence
 Refuse to make sense
 Right on
 Swaying to the sacred fanfares
 Don't you stop to run
 From paradise to despair
 Searing voices
 Now why don't you
 Why do you slow down
 Right on, don't speak, don't wonder
 That way, this way, don't walk astray
 Welcome to the arabesque
 Right on
 Swaying to the sacred fanfares
 Don't you stop to run
 Right on, right on
 Through the pain and the fire
 Through the wind and the rain
 Walking a long way from home
 Right on