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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