Youth, I see    In your heart the red blood flows    Down like a river to the sea it goes    Youth, I see    Through all the trouble, the work and pain    You laugh like a child in a warm spring rain    Youth, I See       From the heavens the moon looks down    And the lapping of the tide is the only sound    The jungle lurks where the firelight fades    The stars are swimming in a moonlit bay    Women cry in their native tongue    Singing of the days when they were young    Hear the black eyed women pray    For all their lovers who have sailed away    On the altar the incense burns    For all the men who will never return       Youth, I see   Muscles ripple across your back    As you grab the rope and hold it fast    Youth, I see    Laughing faces at the end of the day    Hands that clap as the music plays    Youth, I See       See the temple on the hill above    A black bird circling a nesting dove       See the monks in their crimson robes    Walking single file down a dusty road    In the market the hawkers sing    Of aromatic spice and copper rings    Dice are thrown and rattling fall    At the feet of the soldiers on er) ancient wall    And the bones of those who climbed and died    Lie gleaming in the sand on the other side       See all of them dream       Youth, I see    A clear horizon the colour of lead    The sea is green like a blanket spread    Over thee    On the sheltering shore the breezes sing    But here the wind like a big bell rings    Over thee       A white-haired King with a withered hand    Bowed to the youth from a foreign land    Behind the curtains a young girl sighed    Basking in the light of his deep, blue eyes    The King decreed that the youth should know    Alt the secrets of his treasure trove    But never again would he roam free    From that kingdom he would never leave    The young man looked, the young man learned    And never to his home did he return       See all of them dream