Creation (LP Version)-The Incredible String Band

[ti:Creation] [ar:The Incredible String Band] [al:Changing Horses] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Creation (LP Version) - The Incredible String Band [01:06.00]The messengers with sharpened heels [01:09.82]Flew backwards into whose galloping arms [01:14.28]And the impassioned Phoenix [01:16.57]Drawls a sad goodnight to fiction's tomb [01:28.44]Then come to me secretly [01:32.98]And with your silken feather [01:38.93]And with your silken feather [01:43.18]Open your rooms open your rooms [01:58.72]Never in fact as he gazed amazed [02:02.09]At two lost eyebrows lisping into the unexpected [02:04.98] [02:06.81]And the archetypal postman delivering your seed letters [02:12.33]Whose eyes are black eggs really [02:14.74] [02:15.65]Upon a long shore upon a long shore [02:27.48]Open your door open your door [02:43.21]Ask anyone he muttered as he spat a small [02:46.39]Brilliant blue insect whirring into the gauze [02:50.72]I would advise stilts for the quagmires [02:54.35]And camels for the snowy hills and any survivors [02:59.97]Their debts I will certainly pay [03:04.52]There's always a way there's always a way [03:20.30] [03:21.57]I smiled with that gallantly concealed forceful nervousness [03:26.86]That has proved that oysters cry [03:30.35]And that I have come to know and accept as myself [03:35.69]And plucking a barbed feather from the morose universe [03:41.39]I called him deathless and he left before he could reply [03:49.28]Open your eyes open your eyes [04:19.95]Our first father Abraham whose bosom [04:22.98]Was the unique soul of the humans [04:24.76] [04:26.45]Was certainly as bewildered as we are [04:30.11]If not infinitely more so and with an ancient [04:35.58]Ceremonial gesture of dismissal he pointed forward [04:49.03] [04:50.84]Verily verily [04:53.66]Verily verily [04:54.91] [04:56.46]Verily verily [04:59.15]Verily verily [05:13.81]The first day was golden [05:15.75]And she colored the Sun [05:17.69]And she named it Hyperion [05:19.81]And she made it a day of light and healing [05:22.34] [05:31.02]The second was silver [05:32.90]And she colored the Moon [05:35.16]And she named it Phoebe [05:37.07]And she made a day of enchantment and the living waters [05:48.19]And the third was many-colored [05:49.99] [05:51.14]And she colored the Earth [05:53.13]And she made a day of joy [05:55.51]With the scarlet strength of seed [06:06.59]In the fourth black and white were mingled into quicksilver [06:10.16] [06:11.84]And she colored Mercury [06:14.64]And she made a day of wisdom [06:17.70]And the signs that are placed in the firmament [06:20.95] [06:32.66]The fifth was bright blue [06:35.26]And she envisaged Jupiter [06:37.63]And she made a day of awe and circles circles [06:43.95] [06:46.06]And she sent it to guide the blood of the universe [07:00.53]The sixth was burning with icy green flames that glowed white [07:05.76]And of her beauty she made Venus [07:09.30]And she made a day of love [07:11.88]Whereby all beings are united [07:26.48]The seventh was rich purple of the mollusks [07:31.68]And she colored Chronos [07:35.59]And she made a day of idleness and repose [07:40.71]Whereon all beings cease from struggle [07:55.06]Verily verily [07:55.60] [07:57.77]Verily verily [08:00.88]Verily verily [08:03.46]Verily verily [08:04.87]I am the pebble in your very own eye [08:07.45]I am the sword and your enemy dies [08:10.07]I am the storm and the hurricane wind [08:12.51]I am the thorn of an unkind friend [08:14.24] [08:15.13]I am desire what color my eyes [08:17.41]I am Loki wizard of lies [08:19.95]Catch me find me see me if you can [08:22.26]I am the guilt of an honest man [08:23.94] [08:24.62]I am the pebble in your very own eye [08:27.00]I am the sword and your enemy dies [08:29.39]I am the storm and the hurricane wind [08:31.72]I am the thorn of an unkind friend [08:34.06]I am desire what color my eyes [08:36.44]I am Loki wizard of lies [08:38.86]Catch me find me see me if you can [08:41.02]I am the guilt of an honest man [09:08.80]Then seven times we raised our arms [09:12.06]And with cat-stretch [09:12.63] [09:14.08]Sent our foot spells [09:15.86]Yawning into the multitudes [09:22.95]In need we called upon the mother of all living [09:26.67]Three times for succor but with ambitious spears [09:31.90]They made us change they crouched behind [09:34.67] [09:35.38]Their mirrors and fought on [09:43.72]I will not allow them praise [09:46.09]That broke the harmonious globe in splintered fragments [09:57.68]And yet they moved perforce with a perfect pattern [10:02.01]And complemented harmony with discord and light with darkness [10:18.71]It was then [10:19.51]That we stepped out of our world machine [10:22.22]Between the palm and the fingers [10:24.68]Peeling like gloves [10:32.81]And for each eye that shed one tear [10:35.50]We made of that tear an ocean [10:40.03]And in the five directions [10:41.27] [10:43.35]We loosed our several craft [12:29.73]Wild sea I say today [12:34.41]Please be a sweet cow for me [12:39.92]Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea [12:50.64]Gentle as lightning easily [12:56.18]Take me to the root of the world tree [13:01.57]Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea [13:11.89]Your face is consumed in a bruised sky's glance [13:17.97]By the brazen wall with your sword and lance [13:23.55]Where (Incomprehensible) [13:28.23]Where dappled maidens endless danced [13:33.68]'Round the root of the world tree [13:42.15]Wild sea I say today [13:47.15]Please be a sweet cow for me [13:53.03]Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea [14:04.10](Incomprehensible) [14:13.48]Wild sea my love is salty for me [14:19.06]Every ripple in her body is a wave in me [14:25.16]Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea [15:09.16]Hold tight sleep tight [15:15.88](Incomprehensible) [15:25.16](Incomprehensible)