I need my conscience to keep watch over me   To protect me from myself   So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head   When I walk into the promised land    We've been too long American dreaming   And I think we've all lost the way   Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark       I'm in love with an American girl   Though she's my best friend   I love her surreptitious smile   That hides the pain within her       And we'll go dancing in the rings of laughter   And live along by the shores   The Nibelung* by the shores   Fear long in the bounds of raptures   And even long for the loss      Yeah-ee, on the lea the rising wind blows   Fay-hee, on the lea the rising wind blows   How long how long?       fear lon in the grounds of allegiances we've left behind   Turnban** by the foot of the doorway   Never lost and found       We've been too long American dreaming   I think we've all lost the heart   fear long somnambulistic maniacal in the dark       Yeah-ee, on the lea the rising wind blows   Fay-hee, on the lea the rising wind blows   How long how long?