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The Incredible String Band

Creation

357

Singer/Songwriter

Creation was released on January 1, 1969 by Rhino/Elektra as a part of the album Changing Horses

Song Details

AlbumChanging Horses

Release DateJanuary 1, 1969

LabelRhino/Elektra

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM134

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

The Incredible String Band

The Incredible String Band

Performer

Robin Williamson

Robin Williamson

Vocals, Violin, Lead Vocals

Licorice

Additional Vocals, Kazoo, Percussion

Rose

Bass Guitar

Mike Heron

Mandolin

Ivan Pawle

Piano, Organ

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Robin Williamson

Robin Williamson

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Joe Boyd

Producer

Lyrics

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 room, open your room

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 debt 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 coloured the sun

And she named it Hyperion

And she made it a day of light and healing

The second was silver

And she coloured the moon

And she named it Phoebe

And she made a day of enchantment and the living waters

And the third was many coloured

And she coloured the Earth

And she made a day of joy

With the scarlet strength of seed

In the fourth, the black and white were mingled into quicksilver

And she coloured 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 coloured 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 colour 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'm the sword and your enemy dies

I am the storm and the hurricane wind

I'm the thorn of an unkind friend

I'm desire, what colour 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 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 iron eyed, your sight was cast

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

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

Good night, sleep tight

Don't feel gloom

Farewell, it's been swell

To play for real

Written by: Robin Williamson

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