[Verse 1] When I was a child Floating down the Nile I knew not what Id be [Verse 2] No thought of modern trials Or Cleopatras smile Had ever reached my dreams [Chorus] Before the image had a word Before the movement was rehearsed Back when there was still a chance it all meant something [Verse 3] Gone and going still The memories distill To painstaking reliefs [Verse 4] Carved in sheets at night She sleeps on her side I count the inbetweens [Chorus] I woke to water rushing in Fingers clutching at the fringes of a Feeling theres a chance it all meant something
painstaking, distill, cleopatra, meant, inbetweens