The Watcher

[Curt Smith]
Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you acting on your best behavior
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

It's my own desire
It's my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

[Sandtimer]
I didn't expect to see you here
After all we had been through
I wasn't thinking I'd see you for a long, long time
You don't seem pleased to see me again
But since you're here, I wanted to share something with you
I wanted to share a view of the edge of this world
The ocean of infinite nothing
I've stood here countless times before
Always alone, left to endure the emptiness of creation
But I know patience like no man or mountain
I know intimately the word unspoken, the guiding from beneath the veil of our world
The breathing that wipes space and time out of existence and exhales into you
I know you from a thousand lives
I know every death, and I stand, once again
I stand in rain, and in ash
Where the light of stars lay buried