The Gods Love Nubia

The Gods Love Nubia is the twelve song in Elton John's and Tim Rice's musical Aida

Lyrics
Aida: Take me in my dreams recurring

Cheerful as a childhood dance

Into one more taste of freedom

One more longing backward glance

In the sway of somber music

I shall never, never understand

Let me slip into the sweeter

Chorus of that other land

The gods love Nubia

The beautiful, the golden

The radiant, the fertile

The gentle and the blessed

The pain of Nubia

Is only of the moment

The desolate, the suffering

The plundered, the oppressed

Nehebka: The gods love Nubia

Their glorious creation

Their songs roll sweetly

Across the harvest plain

All: The tears of Nubia

A passing aberration

They wash into the river

And are never cried again

The gods love Nubia

We have to keep believing

Though scattered and divided

We are still its heart

The fall of Nubia

Ephemeral and fleeting

The spirit always burning

Though the flesh is torn apart

Take me in my dreams recurring

Cheerful as a childhood dance

Into one more taste of freedom

One more longing backward glance

The gods love Nubia

The beautiful, the golden

The radiant, the fertile

The gentle and the blessed

The pain of Nubia

Is only of the moment

The desolate, the suffering

The plundered, the oppressed

The gods love Nubia

We have to keep believing

Though we're scattered and divided

We are still its heart

The fall of Nubia

Ephemeral and fleeting

The spirit, it's always burning

Though the flesh, it's torn apart

My spirit will keep on burning

Though the flesh, it's torn apart

Take me in my dreams recurring

One more longing backward glance