The Mad Hatter's Song (The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion 1967)
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Oh seekers of spring how could you not find contentment In a time of riddling reasons in this land of the blind By the joke of fate alone it's sure that as the loved hand leaves you You clutch for the slip-stream, the realness to find
But do what you like, do what you like, do what you like Do what you like, do what you like, do what you can Do what you can, live till you die my poor little man For Jesus will stretch out His hand no more
But in the south there's many a waving tree Oh, would that musky fingers move your pain In the warm south winds the lost flowers bloom again And if you cried, you know you'd fill a lake with tears Still wouldn't turn back the years
Since the city has took you mad Hatter is on my mind So sad, sad to see the way it grew those other people that I knew That have either fell or faltered mad Hatter is on my mind And you must have to see clear some time
Prometheus the problem child still juggling with his brains Gives his limping leopard's visions to the miser in his veins Saying Gods are indigestions I come for gain But I am the archer the lover of laughter and mine is the arrowed flight
I am the archer, and my eyes yearn after the unsullied sight Born of the dark waters of the daughters of night Dancing without movement after the clear light
Oh Perithian fate be kind in the rumbling and trundling rickshaw of time Hooked by the heart to the king fisher's line I will set my one eye for the shores of the blind.