Lyrics:

After pyramids, Sudanese, countless wondrous miles,
the region of the swamps swallows up the flow of the Nile.
Here's where monotony & misery contend,
where the aspect of such emptiness loneliness transcends.
Two and a half thousand miles from the sea,
the whale headed stork pokes among the reeds,
where the swamp flies terrorize,
and the fireflies tantalize.
How to go?
If the river knows it only lies.
Heat.
Heat!
Humidity.
The few thoughts left to me I shepherd so lovingly.
I looked down, then looked up again.
There was the whale head king.
I couldn't be sure that I saw a thing!
I looked down, I looked up again.
We saw eye to eye.
It was so civilized!
Here I could see he pitied me.
Ha!

I fell into the change.
It's like I went to sleep in gay Paree.
And woke up in Salt Lake City.

The nights are a cool breeze for senses that are stunned.
But in the roar of the sun the point of it's undone.
And thoughts are a formless tune that wanders in & out of key.
And the only words I don't forget: 'How much you mean to me!'
Two and a half thousand miles from the sea,
the whale headed stork pokes among the reeds,
where the swamp flies terrorize,
and the fireflies tantalize,
How to go?
If the river knows it only lies.
Heat!
Heat!!
Humidity.
The few thoughts left to me I shepherd so lovingly.
I looked down, I looked up again.
And I was happy to see you.
I was so happy I danced a jig.
I was so happy to see you I fell on the ground & jumped up again.

I fell into a basement.
As I lay on my back I could hear water on the walls,
the scurrying of mice.
I was in the basement.
I opened my eyes.
I picked myself up.
I looked at the steps I had just bounced down.
I brushed the cobwebs off.
And looked around:
equatorial lakes,
and the mountains of the moon.

Like a dream I happened to see you.
Like a dream.
I happened to see it.
Happy to see you.