The Letters - Live

by King Crimson

From the album: Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind)

Track 16 of 25 on Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind) (2016).

Duration: 6:28

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Lyrics for The Letters - Live

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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