I walked the desert sands
and the sun was burning hot
I left for foreign lands
saying 'forget me not'

I felt the heat of the scorching dunes
and heard them cry at night
They moaned a thousand mournful tunes
beneath the eagle's flight

I saw the lonely jackal smile
and creep into the dark
I rode a hundred million miles
and bore the desert's mark

I kept secrets to myself
and learned to speak in signs
I cast off this mortal shell
and became one with Time
Sands flow
Sands stay
So will you go
and come back another day

I held the grains of time in my hand
and let them fall one by one
I walked out humble from that land
and subsided to the sun

I've been water and I've been rock
and now myself again
But still I hear the ticking clock
that turns 'now' into 'then'
Sands flow
and sands stay
So will you go
and come back another day
Forever this way
scattered around,
in the sky and in the ground,
nothing and everything,
a King of Kings