Suddenly awake My mind goes back to images revived in half-slumber Vague memories - flashbacks to strangely familiar lands I was never in A world of superstition, kings and queens in parlours of grandeur The lute playing softly while jesters dance
Back in my own world now Everything looks more distant than real Through wind and through fire I still pursue the dream From this outlandish world I'm in
Science, o science How would we have fared without thee? Confronted with an alien world thet never felt ours You offered us deliverance from strange powers You cured our superstitions and made us who we are
But if some alien race was to hold a mirror before us Would we look at something different from what we used to be? So through wind and through fire I still recall the dream From this disenchanted world I'm in