C#m A South of the Sahara, aching heart E G#m is that where you'd guess all astronomy starts? C#m A we could have more knowledge than we dream E G#m in heaven and earth, nothing's less than it seems B C#m A this could be the circle of the stones E G#m the turn of the card or the rolling of bones B C#m A this could be the lay line on the land E G#m the past and the future that cross in our hands B C#m this could close the circle double star that hides itself B E A E white dwarf behind the sun … oh, Sirius C#m B E A E F F# G# the things we can't explain … remain … mysterious. C#m A South of the Sahara, Timbuktu E G#m the back of beyond and the shock of the new B C#m A this could be the strangest thing of all E G#m the body of science with its back to the wall, B C#m A#m F# South of the Sahara distant men of logic try to trace C#m F the shape of the Bortex, the pattern of space A#m F# the same as that of atoms in the mind C#m F# wherever we look it's ourselves that we find G# A#m the sand of the Sahara double star that hides itself G# C# G# F# C# white dwarf behind the sun … oh, Sirius A#m G# C# F# C# D D# F the things we can't explain … remain … mysterious. A#m F# The people of the Dogon always knew C# Fm the extraterrestrials' heavenly view G# A#m F# stars that dog our passage holy suns C# Fm over the centuries, these have become A#m C#m the legend of the Dogon ... how do you explain it? E A E F F# G# (X2) how do you begin to explain it all? C#m A We could be the lay line on the land E G#m invisible shifts in the hourglass's sand B C#m A we could have more knowledge than we dream E G#m in heaven and earth nothing's all that it seems C#m G#m B C#m G#m B C#m we could be eternal … etc.