The Gods Love Nubia - Ensemble - Aida, Heather Headley, Schele Williams

Take me in, my dreams recurring

Cheerful as a childhood dance

Into one more taste of freedom

One more longing backward glance

In the sway of somber music

I shall never, never understand

Let me slip into the sweeter

of another land

The gods love Nubia

The beautiful, the golden

The radiant, the fertile

The gentle and the blest

The pain of Nubia

Is only of the moment

The desolate, the suffering

The plundered, the oppressed

The gods love Nubia

Their glorious creation

Their songs roll sweetly

Across the harvest plains

The tears of Nubia

A passing abbaration

Are washed into the river

And are never cried again

The gods love Nubia

We have to keep believing

Though scattered and divided

We are still its heart

The fall of Nubia

Ephemeral and fleeting

The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn apart

Take me in, my dreams recurring

Cheerful as a childhood dance

Into one more taste of freedom

One more longing backward glance

The gods love Nubia

The beautiful, the golden

The radiant, the fertile

The gentle and the blest

The pain of Nubia is only of the moment

The desolate, the suffering

The plundered, the oppressed

The gods love Nubia

We have to keep believing

Though scattered and divided

We are still its heart

The fall of Nubia

Ephemeral and fleeting

The spirit always burning though the flesh is torn

Apart

Take me in

My dreams recurring

One more longing backward glance