Dead to the world my body was sleepin'   On my mind was nothin' at all   Come a mist, an air so appealing   I'm here a whisperin', you summoned, I called      I formed me a presence whose aspect was changin'   Oh, he would shift, he would not shift at all   We sat for a while, he was very engagin'   And when he was gone, I was gone on a smile      With a strange way of walkin'   And a strange way of breathin'   More lives than a cat that let me astray   All in all, he captured my heart   Dead to the world and I just slipped away      I heard me a music that drew me to dancin'   Lo, I turned under his spell   I opened my coat but he never came closer   I bolted the door and whispered, oh well      With a strange way of walkin'   And a strange way of breathin'   More lives than a cat that let me astray   All in all, he captured my heart   Dead to the world and just slipped away      I laid in the rushes, the air was upon me   Wonderin', well, I just couldn't discern   Will he come back, come back to me?   Oh, I whispered will you ever return?      I was feelin' sensations in no dictionary   He was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke   The life in his fingers unwound my existence   Dead to the world alive I awoke      With a strange way of walkin'   And a strange way of breathin'   Less than a breath of shimmer and smoke   The life in his fingers unwound my existence   Dead to the world alive I awoke      Alive I awoke   (Alive)   Alive I awoke   (Alive I awoke)   Alive   (I awoke)      I awoke   (I awoke)   I awoke   (Alive)   Alive, alive, oh   (Alive)   (Alive)   Alive, alive, oh   Alive, alive, oh