Opium Pits - Nikki Sudden

If I could buy you everything you’d ever need

And everything you’d never want to own

Or just take you back to somewhere you once saw

On the edges of a cold night on the Nile.

Back to some place you’ve never known

Back to some place that you can’t own

You’re crashed out in some boat on the Nile

Where no more pharaohs could ever be that brave.

If I could show you the edges of your eyes

The empty lakes of an empty desert night

The lost and lonely canopies of Rhodes

The Cairo skyline which only tries to hide.

Back to some place you’ve never known

Back to some place that you can’t own

You’re crashed out in some boat on the Nile

Where no more pharaohs could ever be that brave.

And I could see you look at me

And I could see you looked at me.

Back to some place you’ve never known

Back to some place that you can’t own

You’re crashed out on some island on the Nile

Where no more pharaohs could ever kiss your lips

Where I could only hide you like a girl

Back to some place you’ve never known

Back to some place that you can’t own.