Elton John & Sherie Rene Scott
Elton John & Adam Pascal
Elton John & Heather Headley
Elton John & John Hickok
Elton John & Heather Headley & Damian Perkins
Elton John & Sherie Rene Scott
Elton John & Adam Pascal & Heather Headley
Elton John & Sherie Rene Scott & Heather Headley
Elton John & Heather Headley
Elton John & Sherie Rene Scott & Damian Perkins & Adam Pascal & Heather Headley
Elton John & Heather Headley & Adam Pascal
Elton John & Heather Headley
Elton John & Heather Headley & Adam Pascal & Sherie Rene Scott
Elton John & Heather Headley
Elton John & John Hickok & Adam Pascal
Elton John & Adam Pascal
Elton John & Damian Perkins
Elton John & Adam Pascal & Heather Headley
Elton John & Sherie Rene Scott
Elton John & Adam Pascal & Heather Headley
Elton John & Heather Headley & Adam Pascal
Elton John & Sherie Rene Scott
Heather Headley
[AIDA]
Take me in my dreams recurring
Cheerful as a childhood dance
Into one more taste of freedom
One more longing backward glance
In the sway of somber music
I shall never, never understand
Let me slip into the sweeter
Chorus of that other land
The gods love Nubia
The beautiful, the golden
The radiant, the fertile
The gentle and the blessed
The pain of Nubia
Is only for the moment
The desolate the suffering
The plundered, the oppressed
[NEHEBKA]
The gods love Nubia
Their glorious creation
Its songs roll sweetly
Across the harvest plain
[AIDA, NEHEBKA]
The tears of Nubia
A passing aberration
They wash into the river
And are never cried again
[NEHEBKA, AIDA, MEREB, NUBIAN WOMEN]
The gods love Nubia
We have to keep believing
The scattered and divided
We are still its heart
The fall of Nubia
Ephemeral and fleeting
The spirit always burning
Though the flesh is torn apart
[ALL]
Take me in my dreams recurring
Cheerful as a childhood dance
Into one more taste of freedom
One more longing backward glance
The gods love Nubia
The beautiful, the golden
The radiant, the fertile
The gentle and the blessed
The pain of Nubia
Is only for the moment
The desolate the suffering
The plundered, the oppressed
The gods love Nubia
We have to keep believing
Though scattered and divided
We are still it's heart
The fall of Nubia
Ephemeral and fleeting
The spirit always burning
Though the flesh is torn apart
My spirit will keep on burning
Though the flesh is torn -
[AIDA]
- Apart
[ALL]
Take me in my dreams recurring
One more longing backward glance
The Gods Love Nubia was written by Tim Rice & Elton John.
The Gods Love Nubia was produced by Walt Disney Records.
Nubia was an area that covered what is now Lower Egypt and the Sudan, with cities positioned along the Nile. Like Ancient Egypt, it is considered one of the earliest civilizations in Northern Africa.
The Nubians actually borrowed some of their gods from Egypt, and vice versa. Those borrowed from Egypt include many of the “main” gods such as Amon, Isis, and Anubis. They also had their own gods, although many of them are lost to historians today. One such god is Apedemak, the Nubian God of War.