A haze of smoke rises in a leaden sky   It was dawn when I awoke   Picked up my things and said goodbye   A whistle blows, you look up and I am gone   Where I'm bound I do not know   The morning came for leaving   I will travel in shifting sands   Write my name in water   Subdue the tongue   Carve an image in passing clouds   Watch it drift and scatter   Like beads unstrung   And as the evening closes in   I'm wandering   At nine fifteen   We pulled up beside the quay   Into some town I've never seen   I am a stranger here and   I will travel in shifting sands   Write my name in water   Subdue the tongue   (Carve an image in passing clouds   Watch it drift and scatter   Like beads unstrung   I will travel in shifting sands   Write my name in water   Subdue the tongue)*2