Nitin Sawhney

Eastern Eyes

Nitin Sawhney


For the eastern eyes of a life reborn 
When the western skies of a broken dawn 
In the first embrace of a haunted smile 
With the hopeful eyes of an alien child 
I was taken by the hand from the ocean to the sand 
From the half-light to the day 
I have come to find my way 
I have come to find my way 

In the burning sheets of a neighbour's pain 
With the sweat of a night and the summer rain 
In the cry of birth and the death of fear 
For the hope of a light and the joy of tears 
I was taken by the hand from the ocean to the sand 
From the half-light to the day 
I have come to find my way 
I have come to find my way 

From the tainted screen of a surgeon mind 
From the tear-stained face of a haunted kind 
From the shade of death and the flame of life 
From the ??est blade of a surgeon's knife 
I was taken by the hand from the ocean to the sand 
From the half-light to the day 
I have come to find my way 
I have come to find my way 

Eastern, eastern eyes... your eyes 
For these eastern, eastern, eastern, eastern eyes 
For these eastern, eastern eyes 
For these eastern eyes 
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