[Verse 1] Dust on your tongue Salt in your eyes You walked where iron anger Split the sky Names turned to numbers Houses to ash You carried your silence Like a cracked flask [Chorus] Then our oasis rose Far from the cries of war A ring of palms around our fear Pure water on our scars Peace in a clay cup Dates in your open hand Love like a moist mist Slow and kind Falling on broken sand [Verse 2] When distant steel begins to ring Its hollow song across the plain We answer with the quiet drip Of water healing ancient pain Archaic stories Soft as a prayer About fields and fountains Hidden somewhere [Chorus] Now our oasis grows Far from the cries of war A ring of palms around our fear Pure water on our scars Peace in a clay cup Fruits for the tired band Love like a moist mist Slow and kind Folding the wounded land [Bridge] Let every tired fighter Forget the taste of steel Lay down his hardened heartbeat And finally learn to feel (oh) When distant steel begins to ring Its hollow song across the plain We answer with the quiet drip Of water healing ancient pain [Chorus] Here is the blessed place Far from the cries of war A ring of palms around our pain Pure water on our scars Peace in a clay cup Fruits in a trembling hand Love like a moist mist Slow and kind Teaching the heart to stand
