You want to be proclaimed to the world
While you walk along the Nile
Like those older inhabitants

Across the land that colors the snow
While your face is lined with sorrow
You felt that the tomb was yours

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When you're going down
It's time for pride or dust
There's a sandstorm
It's time for pride or dust

You've been suffering, but you've never cried
It's a consequence of power
You are trying to hide the wounds

A new day to lose yourself in thoughts
as you build your own empire
Now it's the time to set you free

[Chorus]

The desert trail won't hold you through the sands of time
Even if the water turns to blood
Pride or dust
Pride or dust