作词 : June Tabor
A man, lost in time and speed, adrift in his dreaming
While like an Arab steed the motorcycle flying
On past the English fields, the misty morning hedgerow
The wind in the wireweeds, the warm sirocco sighing

Aqaba, all my life turns on you
All my life returns to you

Out of the silent wastes, no friends, no quarter
The blood is up, the senses race, the last dawn is breaking
Over the sleeping host, the unsuspecting shadows
Grim as a desert ghost to the pale ride awaiting

Aqaba, all my life turns on you
All my life returns to you

Now your eyes are turned from me, I shall surprise you
Turn your faces to the sea, I shall come riding
Down from the desert sands that glorious morning
Oh what a deadly dance drummed out of hiding

Aqaba, all my life turns on you
All my life returns to you

The puppies bobbing on the tide, the blood in the sand dunes
The sun dying in the sky, the black shades falling
Over the dead of night, the church bells tolling
The owl in his silent flight, the desert wind calling

Aqaba, all my life turns on you
All my life returns to you