Talisman

Trinket worn with colours matching saddened eyes has lost 
itsmagic touch
People from a distant hill have crossed an ever-stretching 
sea ofsand
Artificial flowers cannot die for life within them is 
illusion
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Figures made of pedigrees control the non-existent soul of 
JohnSmith
Walk the creature let it run but slacken not the rope to 
whichit's bound
Ships in bottles cannot sail and neither can a tombstone 
kill afeather
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Kings are nothing more without the glory and the wealth 
behindtheir thinking
Let me feel the choice of seeing dawn or setting sun before
 Idie
Myriads of painted faces rush behind the eye of the 
uncertain
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

(Recitative)
Let me live only to do
And let me do only to live
My steel image comes with the sun
And that's where it slumbers now.

Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.