Creation (LP Version) - The Incredible String Band

The messengers with sharpened heels

Flew backwards into whose galloping arms

And the impassioned Phoenix

Drawls a sad goodnight to fiction's tomb

Then come to me secretly

And with your silken feather

And with your silken feather

Open your rooms open your rooms

Never in fact as he gazed amazed

At two lost eyebrows lisping into the unexpected

And the archetypal postman delivering your seed letters

Whose eyes are black eggs really

Upon a long shore upon a long shore

Open your door open your door

Ask anyone he muttered as he spat a small

Brilliant blue insect whirring into the gauze

I would advise stilts for the quagmires

And camels for the snowy hills and any survivors

Their debts I will certainly pay

There's always a way there's always a way

I smiled with that gallantly concealed forceful nervousness

That has proved that oysters cry

And that I have come to know and accept as myself

And plucking a barbed feather from the morose universe

I called him deathless and he left before he could reply

Open your eyes open your eyes

Our first father Abraham whose bosom

Was the unique soul of the humans

Was certainly as bewildered as we are

If not infinitely more so and with an ancient

Ceremonial gesture of dismissal he pointed forward

Verily verily

Verily verily

Verily verily

Verily verily

The first day was golden

And she colored the Sun

And she named it Hyperion

And she made it a day of light and healing

The second was silver

And she colored the Moon

And she named it Phoebe

And she made a day of enchantment and the living waters

And the third was many-colored

And she colored the Earth

And she made a day of joy

With the scarlet strength of seed

In the fourth black and white were mingled into quicksilver

And she colored Mercury

And she made a day of wisdom

And the signs that are placed in the firmament

The fifth was bright blue

And she envisaged Jupiter

And she made a day of awe and circles circles

And she sent it to guide the blood of the universe

The sixth was burning with icy green flames that glowed white

And of her beauty she made Venus

And she made a day of love

Whereby all beings are united

The seventh was rich purple of the mollusks

And she colored Chronos

And she made a day of idleness and repose

Whereon all beings cease from struggle

Verily verily

Verily verily

Verily verily

Verily verily

I am the pebble in your very own eye

I am the sword and your enemy dies

I am the storm and the hurricane wind

I am the thorn of an unkind friend

I am desire what color my eyes

I am Loki wizard of lies

Catch me find me see me if you can

I am the guilt of an honest man

I am the pebble in your very own eye

I am the sword and your enemy dies

I am the storm and the hurricane wind

I am the thorn of an unkind friend

I am desire what color my eyes

I am Loki wizard of lies

Catch me find me see me if you can

I am the guilt of an honest man

Then seven times we raised our arms

And with cat-stretch

Sent our foot spells

Yawning into the multitudes

In need we called upon the mother of all living

Three times for succor but with ambitious spears

They made us change they crouched behind

Their mirrors and fought on

I will not allow them praise

That broke the harmonious globe in splintered fragments

And yet they moved perforce with a perfect pattern

And complemented harmony with discord and light with darkness

It was then

That we stepped out of our world machine

Between the palm and the fingers

Peeling like gloves

And for each eye that shed one tear

We made of that tear an ocean

And in the five directions

We loosed our several craft

Wild sea I say today

Please be a sweet cow for me

Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea

Gentle as lightning easily

Take me to the root of the world tree

Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea

Your face is consumed in a bruised sky's glance

By the brazen wall with your sword and lance

Where (Incomprehensible)

Where dappled maidens endless danced

'Round the root of the world tree

Wild sea I say today

Please be a sweet cow for me

Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea

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Wild sea my love is salty for me

Every ripple in her body is a wave in me

Amethyst galleon out on the rolling sea

Hold tight sleep tight

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