My Fairy King (BBC Session / February 5th 1973, Langham 1 Studio)
In the land where horses born with eagle wings And honey bees have lost their stings There's singing forever Lion's den with fallow deer And rivers made from wine so clear Flow on and on forever Dragons fly like sparrows thru' the air And baby lambs where Samson dares To go on on on on on on
[First voice] [Second Voice] My fairy king can see things | He rules the air and turns the tides That are not there for you and me | Ohh yeah he guides the winds
My fairy king can do right and nothing wrong Then came man to savage in the night To run like thieves and to kill like knives To take away the power from the magic hand To bring about the ruin to the promised land
They turn the milk into sour Like the blue in the blood of my veins Why can't you see it Fire burnin' in hell with the cry of screaming pain Son of heaven set me free and let me go Sea turn dry no salt from sand Teeth don't shine like pearls for the poor man's eyes
Someone someone has drained the colour from my wings Broken my fairy circle ring And shamed the king in all his pride Changed the winds and wronged the tides Mother mercury (mercury) Look what they've done to me I cannot run I cannot hide