You may seek the wind among the reeds
You may give the girls the love they need
The love they need is gold, the love is never doomed
The love they want is gilded with a lavish gloom
They wake, they marry and they cry
They wake to hear stories when they die
Stories told with joy, stories often true
Stories when their cleverness was calling you
Pay no heed to the tenor of the times
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
They say that the lights were left on until dawn
They wake beneath the slanting sun
They wake without telling anyone
About the winter seeds, the songs too hard to sing
The pleasures wide awake in nearly everything
Pay no heed to the tenor of the times
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
“They Wake” Video and Lyrics
They Wake
You may seek the wind among the reeds
You may give the girls the love they need
The love they need is gold, the love is never doomed
The love they want is gilded with a lavish gloom
They wake, they marry and they cry
They wake to hear stories when they die
Stories told with joy, stories often true
Stories when their cleverness was calling you
Pay no heed to the tenor of the times
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
They say that the lights were left on until dawn
They wake beneath the slanting sun
They wake without telling anyone
About the winter seeds, the songs too hard to sing
The pleasures wide awake in nearly everything
Pay no heed to the tenor of the times
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
They say that the lights were left on until dawn