The Incredible String Band - Ithkos lyrics

Sardis(Oud Tune) Lesbos-Dawn Lesbos-Evening Aegean Sea Dreams Fade Port of Sybaris Go down Sybaris Huntress Hold my gaze I sailed out from Sardis just one day past Ithkos Ithkos Sailed to meet the dawn on Lesbos fair Ithkos Ithkos My merchant's task on this isle is done I call soft evening forth To ease up my care And to ease up my care Aphrodite's temple is sweet with sandarac Bright torches start the night to praise her Ithkos wipes his mouth and drops the wineskin Salt wind fresh in my mind I said salt wind fresh in my mind Dark brown eyes has Ithkos From Sardis newly come The carmined lips of Lesbos fail to please And through the noisy night Just one plaintive song I said just one plaintive song will match my heart Match my heart The beautiful Aegean sea Brings out a weeping need in me I can't stand by Like a thief in the night While that aching lovely light Shines on Dreams fade now, a new day rings Trade pulls the galleon ever on To rich Sybaris, port of our call Beyond the blue Aegean How sweet the sight of peopled shores To a wanderer as I Known from here to Lydia far Pale Sybaris knows not my tread I said Sybaris knows not my tread And fear stalks in my heart I said fear stalks in my heart For reason, reason unknown Gotta come right out and say it Pale Sybaris I bear you great scorn Gotta come right out and say it Pale Sybaris I bear you great scorn Talkin' 'bout your fluted pillars and your muted life I need not your fluted pillars and your muted life It's worse to me It's worse to me It's worse to me Than d**h's own chariot rollin' It's worse to me It's worse to me It's worse to me Than d**h's own chariot rollin' (repeat once) Oh hold my gaze light of day That my thoughts they will not stray To Hippolyta The vows that set her free Denied me It was right there in Sybaris famed That I met with her who's named Hippolyta Oh hold my gaze bring not the sight Of that awful wondrous night Hippolyta Far outside the city walls The Huntress Dance does call Hippolyta And the vows that set her free Denied me The vows that set her free Denied me The vows that set her free Denied me