Islands Album Lyrics

Formentera Lady
  • (Fripp/Sinfield)
  • Houses iced in whitewash guard a pale shore-line
  • Cornered by the cactus and the pine.
  • Here I wander where sweet sage and strange herbs grow
  • Down a sun-baked crumpled stony road.
  • Dusty wheels leaning rusting in the sun;
  • Snuff brown walls where Spanish lizards run.
  • Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan
  • Ringed by ants and musing over man.
  • I'll unwind my old strings while the sun shine down
  • Won't climb any high thing while the sun shine.
  • Formentera Lady sing your song for me
  • Formentera Lady sweet lover.
  • Lamplights glows on old guitars the travellers strum;
  • Insence children dance to an Indian drum.
  • Here Odysseus charmed for dark Circe fell,
  • Still her perfume lingers still her spell.
  • Time's grey hand won't catch me while the sun shine down
  • Untie and unlatch me while the stars shine.
  • Formentera Lady dance your dance for me
  • Formentera Lady dark lover.
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The Letters
  • (Fripp/Sinfield)
  • With quill and silver knife
  • She carved a poison pen
  • Wrote to her lover's wife:
  • "Your husband's seed has fed my flesh".
  • As if a leper's face
  • That tainted letter graced
  • The wife with choke-stone throat
  • Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.
  • Impaled on nails of ice
  • And raked with emerald fire
  • The wife with soul of snow
  • With steady hands begins to write:
  • "I'm still, I need no life
  • To serve on boys and men
  • What's mine was yours is dead
  • I take my leave of mortal flesh"
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Ladies Of The Road
  • (Fripp/Sinfield)
  • A flower lady's daughter
  • As sweet as holy water
  • Said: "I'm the school reporter
  • Please teach me", well I taught her.
  • Two fingered levi'd sister
  • Said, "Peace", I stopped I kissed her.
  • Said, "I'm a male resister",
  • I smiled and just unzipped her.
  • High diving chinese trender
  • Black hair and black suspender
  • Said, "Please me no surrender
  • Just love to feel your Fender".
  • All of you know that the girls of the road
  • Are like apples you stole in your youth.
  • All of you know that the girls of the road
  • Been around but are versed in the truth.
  • Stone-headed Frisco spacer
  • Ate all the meat I gave her
  • Said would I like to taste hers
  • And even craved the flavour
  • "Like marron-glaced fish bones
  • Oh lady hit the road!"
  • All of you know that the girls of the road
  • Are like apples you stole in your youth.
  • All of you know that the girls of the road
  • Been around but are versed in the truth.
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Islands
  • (Fripp/Sinfield)
  • Earth, stream and tree encircled by sea
  • Waves sweep the sand from my island.
  • My sunsets fade.
  • Field and glade wait only for rain
  • Grain after grain love erodes my
  • High weathered walls which fend off the tide
  • Cradle the wind
  • to my island.
  • Gaunt granite climbs where gulls wheel and glide
  • Mournfully glide o'er my island.
  • My dawn bride's veil, damp and pale,
  • Dissolves in the sun.
  • Love's web is spun - cats prowl, mice run
  • Wreathe snatch-hand briars where owls know my eyes
  • Violet skies
  • Touch my island,
  • Touch me.
  • Beneath the wind turned wave
  • Infinite peace
  • Islands join hands
  • 'Neathe heaven's sea.
  • Dark harbour quays like fingers of stone
  • Hungrily reach from my island.
  • Clutch sailor's words - pearls and gourds
  • Are strewn on my shore.
  • Equal in love, bound in circles.
  • Earth, stream and tree return to the sea
  • Waves sweep sand from my island,
  • from me.
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Music Album Reviews: Islands
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Islands
by King Crimson

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Overall Rating:
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Islands is ranked overall as 2.3945 out of 4 stars
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Islands is ranked overall as 2.4750 out of 4 stars
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Disc
Track
Title
1
1
Formentera Lady
 
1
2
Sailor's Tale
1
3
The Letters
1
4
Ladies Of The Road
 
1
5
Prelude: Song Of The Gulls
1
6
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