I was a pilgrim in early life   I traveled at night   Bound for Jordan just ten miles north   Of a civil war      Immersed in mercy in holy flood   That mingled with blood   My sextant headed for homebound lands   Through twilight sands      But I grew weary and too far-gone   To carry on   At first my home and my empire soon   Would there assume      I'm watching my kingdom tumbling down   You're flooding my refuge underground   My kingdom for angels, mighty surround   To take me away from here      A sea of sand came through fiery pass   A sea of glass   An ivory fortress and turret's stell   Would swift reveal      The gods of beast and of sun and sky   With banners high   Were worshipped in their six temple's fold   Of desert gold      In summer's sting, as the sages say   The sand gave way   My empire capsized at vanity's cost   And all were lost      I'm watching my kingdom crumble and fall   You're building Your kingdom over all   I'm cursing my wisdom while the angels I call   To take me away, to take me away from here