Standard (EADGBE)

  No cloud, a sleepy calm

  Sunbaked earth that's cooled by gentle breeze, and trees

  With rustling leaves, only endless days without a care

  Nothing must be done

  Silent, as a day can be

  Far off sounds of others on their chosen run

  As they do, all those things they feel give a life some meaning

  Even if they're dull

  It's time to stop this dreaming, must rejoin the real world

  As revealed by orange lights and a smoky atmosphere

  The trees and I are shaken by, the same winds but whereas

  The trees will lose their withered leaves

  I just can't seem to let them loose

  And they can't refresh me, those hot winds of the south

  Oh I feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place

  Now the light is fading fast, chances slip away

  A time will come to pass, when there'll be none

  Then addicted to a perfumed poison, betrayed by its aftertaste

  Oh we shall lose the wonder and find nothing in return

  Many are the substitutes but they're powerless on their own

  Beware the fisherman who's casting out his line

  Into a dried up river bed

  But don't try to tell him cos he won't believe you

  Throw some bread to the ducks instead, it's easier that way

  I feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place

  The trees and I are shaken by, the same winds but whereas

  The trees will lose their withered leaves

  I just can't seem to let them loose

  And they can't refresh me, those hot winds of the south

  I feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place

  [ ] Rpt and fade