Nick Garrie

Stone And Silk [Demo 1968]

Album: The Nightmare Of J.B. Stanislas [2010]
Author: Nick Garrie

Goldent threads of silk flow through my fingers

Istanbul lay smouldering in the night

Black waters murmured

I felt so still

 

Turquoise evening merged through ice blue morning

Centuries of stone stared into silence

I felt the wind

I heard girls sing

  

They sang that no man lives for ever

Their voices echoed round the walls

 

Golden threads still blow across my forehead

Turkish darkness burns before my eyes

And heavy sleep

I’d never known

 

They sang that no man lives for ever

Their voices echoed round the walls

 

I will hold your hand across cold tombstones

Mosques may hold a vision outside time

We’ll stroll through years

Through the shadows of frigid stone