slow and dreamlike)       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 of the moment    The desolate, the suffering, the plundered, the oppressed       The gods love Nubia, their glorious creation    Their songs roll sweetly across the harvest plain    The tears of Nubia, a passing aberration    They wash into the river and are never cried again!       (picks up speed)       The gods love Nubia, we have to keep believing    Though 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    Oh, yeah       (pure gospel sound)       Take me in (Take me in)    My dreams recurring (My dreams recurring)    Cheerful as (Cheerful as) a childhood dance (a childhood dance)    Oh, into one (into one) more taste of freedom (more taste of freedom)    One more longing backward glance (one more longing backward glance)       The gods love Nubia, oh the beautiful (the beautiful)    The golden (the golden) the radiant (the radiant) the fertile (the fertile)    the gentle and the blessed (and the blessed!)       The pain of Nubia is only of the moment    The desolate (the desolate) the suffering (the suffering)    The plundered, the oppressed       The gods love Nubia, we have to keep believing    Though 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    The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn    (Aida)    Is torn apart       (Chorus)    Take me in my dreams recurring    One more longing backward glance