The Incredible String Band - The Head lyrics

Only a palace with interior doors Well painted well gargoyled with multiple floors Two windows let free this projector machine And the magical world here appears on the screen My servants attend me with tricks of the senses The past and the future and similar tenses And on platters of air they convey me my measure Both gladness and sorrow, I lack not for treasure The lord and his lady are seated within In the court of the mind where the song does begin The song is as fine is as fine is as follows The song does continue through measureless hollows That sink from the level of personal being Through caverns of darkness where dragons Are dwelling The mountains above them are raised at my calling Where the apples are ripe or the rain is a-falling In ships of white vision I sail the horizon Where three spinners stand beyond the Horizon under the tree of the apples of beauty I watch them arranging my days and tomorrows The song is as fine is as fine as it follows I stood on the beach where the moon was a-curling Laughed on the wings of the sea birds calling I loved when sweet Venus a lover did bring me I cried when sweet Saturn and Jupiter moved us And all of my servants were fighting their brothers And the lord and the lady they hated each other Till the spinners arose with their work on their fingers Commanding the presence of Heavenly singers That spoke of the silence so soon to be coming When all would be still in the wonderful palace The peace is not stillness but peacefully changing This hope is the hope of the man on the gallows The song is as fine is as fine is as follows The infant I was in the womb of my mother White s**m I was in the loins of my father Before that I swam in the oceans of nowhere Where the fish are as fine as the colour of colours Where waves are the message of centuries rolling Where wind is the breath of the Holy Creator Where no ship sails but only the ocean Where all the rivers grow mighty with showing And crowned with the gifts of the myriad valleys Return with a sigh to the sea of the coming Forever and ever and ever and ever be glad O be Glad for the song has no ending