Everyone who sought power was stripped of their badge Even this song prevents me from the act And the people all voted with the pull of their hearts To find those devoted to the pull of their art And with the subtle grace of falling snow Their music covered the land Like a covert assassin climbing the ranks On the day he is made the king's hand Rise up rise up waking dreamers Creators of time Your canvas is existence And your colours are life And the thrones of man grew dusty and cold If ever a metaphor for the old World there was In long forgotten corridors occasionally sounds a sigh How funny to think those foolish beasts For freedom would lay down and die Rise up rise up waking dreamers Creators of time Your canvas is existence And your colours are life Rise up waking dreamers Rise up waking dreamers And the choir sang and the sails fell In communion heaven rejoiced To know from now our saviours are Those with the purest voice And the choir sang from every ledge A melody pure and sweet For the quiet song of falling snow Finally fell at their feet Rise up rise up waking dreamers Creators of time Your canvas is existence And your colours are life Rise up waking dreamers Rise up waking dreamers