Beyond Desert Sands

'Unbelievable' - that's what they say when I speak true

then they jeer at me like fools may do

So deplorable, this narrow-minded ignorance

I won't tell them how my story ends

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Tell me why should I lie

as I'm going to die

All my memories are true, I swear

I remember them, the kingdoms of the rising sun

and I still hear the sound of silver chimes

Gold and ivory, precious gems and silken robes

marble palaces from sunken times

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Illusions, all troubles and tears?

Had I been dreaming my life for seventeen years?

So many wonders I've seen

roaming the far eastern lands beyond desert sands

My second life had begun

in the service of China's great Khan

As a respected and far-travelled man

I would see my dear homeland again

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