Cantara

Gerrard and Perry wrote it. It is track six at 5:58, between "Dawn of the Iconoclast" and "Summoning of the Muse", in the second half of the album that Gerrard leads; Post-Punk.com calls it spellbinding eastern mystique, Wikipedia says her mystical vocal quality is especially noticeable on it, and a 2026 Spectrum Culture piece describes the primordial medieval menace of its harpsichord and thunder drums. It was never a single, and we found no verified statement from the artists on what it is about. A MetaFilter commenter says the word is Arabic for bridge, which is unconfirmed.

Setlist.fm ranks it third among their songs, with 186 plays behind "Dreams Made Flesh" and "Sanvean". It was song 10 of 20 at the Town and Country Club in London on April 30, 1989, and a live version is on Toward the Within, recorded at the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica on November 16 and 17, 1993, released October 24, 1994. On May 5, 2019 at the Eventim Apollo in London it was the second song of the first encore. We found no covers or samples of it.