[ti:Queen Of Love (LP Version)] [ar:The Incredible String Band] [al:U] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Queen of Love - The Incredible String Band [00:01.05]A strong power calls from the left hand [00:05.78]Across the waters deep [00:09.58]A strong power calls from the left hand [00:14.31]Let all things sleep or weep [00:19.27]Oh the queen of love you have unwove my eyes [00:26.69]And my heart will not sleep [00:33.89]The eye would sleep but the mind would rise [00:42.89]I must needs walk down God's eyebrows [00:47.04]And along the street of his eyes [00:52.30]Look for me and you will see me in my red cloak [00:56.23]Swimming determined [00:59.03]As God's blood flows [01:07.67]Creatures of grief you beg from the thief [01:15.54]I will not carry home your sacks of sorrow [01:22.84]But I will pay the fiddler good silver if he smiles [01:29.62]Pray God he see tomorrow [01:38.35]And the fine fine girls that are into it [01:42.80]And my eyes with salt water swim [01:48.83]And we disputing with a brittle gaiety [01:53.57]Upon the world's rim [01:57.84]If I sought to love you with my body [02:03.18]It would be with a bent back [02:07.98]Unto the day of doom [02:20.55]Oh the Queen of Love [02:25.95]I am in her heart [02:28.17]She is in my room [02:35.68]And together alone we clasp hands [02:38.38]And in each other's eyes walk the endless shore [02:50.84]And below I have my duty to perform in the song [02:57.56]And that that I was [02:59.73]You will see it no more [03:08.31]The snow is on the hills of my heart [03:13.28]And to speak is to die [03:19.02]The men at arms do seek to mark me [03:23.09]And the monks raise hue and cry [03:28.05]Seek me in vain on Golgotha [03:33.16]Or in fear's hollow [03:37.15]For the way I take today [03:42.45]Only the true may follow [03:49.63]The ancestors in stone armour [03:53.09]Calling for loyalty untrue [03:58.21]Seek to make a zigzag of the arrow's flight [04:07.62]It is so swaddled in the bands of form [04:11.62]But I am girdled with the storm [04:16.14]And cloaked with the night [04:21.75]I am not to be seen or found [04:26.05]Save only in what I cause [04:30.31]Standing outside on the inside outside [04:34.09]Perfectingness and flaws [04:40.11]How will I say where I end [04:45.71]Or where you begin [04:50.63]How will I say what shall I play [04:53.16]Shall it be you or the wild wind [05:00.31]As Pan with the unsane eyes [05:06.63]Or with the wild horns [05:10.32]Or when I am crowned with the paper crown [05:15.87]Or with the crown of thorns [05:23.17]A strong power compels distortion from the right hand [05:32.59]Fleece to the grey wolves [05:36.78]Fangs to the grey sheep [05:42.47]But the Queen of Love she strokes [05:47.23]My body alive that I do not sleep [05:56.69]The doctor brews potions and pills [06:01.13]To open his own front door [06:05.49]And the locksmith makes strong bolts [06:08.46]To bar his gates to every new breeze that blows [06:14.67]Shall I now put lion's ears upon my ears [06:19.07]Hear every sound as a roar [06:22.89]Shall I now put mouse's eyes upon my eyes [06:27.17]Gauge the moon for size against my paw [06:32.40]While the Queen of Love [06:37.77]She sings to me [06:38.79]From above and beyond the world [06:47.66]And I observe my mind [06:50.35]It is playing ignorant boy [06:55.04]While at her feet I am curled [07:03.52]And I remember all female movements so well [07:14.43]Of such a form to bring much joy and ease much care [07:25.04]To perfume and let fall the coloured gown [07:33.29]And to let down the curling hair [07:40.60]But now I play seed thrower [07:44.95]And I will play three-legged man [07:49.66]I will play dream weaver and day bringer [07:54.55]And catch as catch can [07:59.91]While the Queen of Love [08:05.55]She swims like a silver dove in my mind's room [08:16.27]And my body sleep walks down the road [08:24.54]In a warm dark swoon