Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun


Little by little the night turns around.
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn.
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning.
Under the eaves the swallow is resting.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness
Waking the grapevine.
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven.
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?
Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Роджер Уотерс признался, что в качестве основы для песни "Set The Controls For The Feart Of The Sun" он использовал книгу китайской поэзии. Так, в одном из стихотворений Ли Хо есть строчка "Witness the man raved at the wall as he wrote his question to heaven", а в стихотворении, написанном Ли Шанг-Йином, есть строчки "watch little by little the night turn around", "countless the twigs which tremble in dawn" и "One inch of love is an inch of ashes".