Watch! is the word which haunts the quiet town.
Watch! The desert night invades.
The stretching shadows overwhelm.
Watch! O desert town and pray.
Legends are but stories told,
and histories are but the same—
A prophecy’s a story too.
We know it’s true.
Our secret sins will be repaid.
The sands of time, the setting sun,
the stars that numberless look down—
the desert sands lie all around—
No man can count his days,
nor see the end of all his ways.
I count myself a man, an earnest man,
but feel the shifting sand beneath my step.
Watch O silent town.
Your time will come to pay.
The desert night is dark but bright—
the light is cold that shimmers in the sky.
Tale Told 