Intro: By the time the luminous descent of the bright star unfolds And tablets of strange love are shattered and bruised By the time the oleander is falling from bloom And tears of the crocodile water the sun By the time you make up your mind If ever you do I hear the drums of heaven too By the time you make up your mind Remember this truth I hear the drums of heaven too Solo: **Intro By the time paradise alley is littered with rust And the arc of dayglo is curtained in gloom By the time kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust And the empires and all of the emirates burn By the time you make up your mind If ever you do I hear the drums of heaven too By the time you make up your mind Remember this too I hear the drums of heaven too Ice on the mountain Wind and the dust storm Sails in the desert It's old and exploding Seers and the prophets Drums of heaven Attention ground control, there's someone coming down, I don't know By the time you make up your mind If ever you do I hear the drums of heaven too By the time you make up your mind Remember this too I hear the drums of heaven too I hear the drums of heaven too I hear the drums of heaven too **Intro **In The Verse, The Sequence.