
Date of issue: 25.02.1996
Record label: Parlophone
Song language: English
Listen, Learn, Read On |
In ages past when spells were cast |
In a time of men in steel |
When a man was taught no special thing |
It was all done by feel |
So listen, so learn, so read on You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn |
Hear the song of lovely Joan |
Her sound so sweet and clear |
In the courtroom of the King |
Among children and the peers |
So listen, so learn, so read on You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn |
«Now hear ye the words of Taliesyn, |
on the foaming beach of the ocean, |
in the day of trouble, |
I shall be of more service to thee |
than three hundred salmon…» |
The hare he bounds across the page |
Past castles white and fair |
Past dreaming chessmen on their boards |
With a fool’s mate as a snare |
So listen, so learn, so read on You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn |
«Three times I have been born |
I know this from meditation…» |
The bird he flies the distance |
From pages two to six |
Past minstrels in their boxes |
To the waters of the Styx |
So listen, so learn, so read on You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn |
Don’t take the pictures lightly |
Listen to their sound |
For from their coloured feeling |
Experience is found |
So listen, so learn, so read on You gotta turn the page, read the Book of Taliesyn |
«All the sciences of the world are collected in my breast, |
for I know what has been, what is now, |
and what hereafter will occur…» |
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