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These lyrics were sent to me by Lorna Grendel Banks (lorna@icbl.heriot-watt.ac.uk) Mon Feb 20 15:07:35 1995.
The lyrics are taken from "ancient" bootlegs and stuff, and are thus very very unofficial. The recordings from where they are are often quite unclear, so the lyrics presented here might very well be quite innaccurate. If you have some corrections, please send them to me at llauren@hut.fi.
This track is from the times before Fish.
And my mind keeps on flying
Trying to be free
And my spirit comes to meet me
I'm as high as I can be
And there's someone in the valley
She's calling out to me
She's standing by the river
My Lady Fantasy
Sunrise in the morning
Lies upon the hill
Daybreaks without warning
???? coming still
Sun fills up the valley
Carpet all of green
Falls upon the lady
Finest ever seen
She stands by the river
There for all to see
Love goes on forever
Oh my Lady Fantasy
The White Queen's running backword with a mallet to the fore
The Cheshire Cat is grinning, dissolving through the floor
So walk a little faster
To catch up with your past
And moving on a black square
You meet the Queen at last
And now the pack has fallen
Where your paths were once mislead
You'll never return for all the vows that were said
[Doug Irvine]
Breathing ??? tavern, fetching nights in day
In this seething of technology
Machine hunts stood on high (?)
In the chaos of the airwaves
They don't hear his daughters cry
Shine on Victoria(?), shine on
Spread your wings and feel the pinch
You're a survivor your proud and your feet(?)
Above the mayhem, above the cancer
Silver daydream, a hermits anthem
Shine on (or ride on?)
In the forests of black towers
With blood with passing powers(?)
sounds of a million insects
above the swarming clouds
Remit of the plastic age
????? of man's folly
In the ??????? of the airwaves
striving birds pursue their quarry
It's ?????? electric sheets
??? die in medals (?) ??????
Shine on, Victoria, shine on
You cannot love forever, this you surely understand
??????? you realise the end
to encapsulate your freedom
???????? (1 line) shy
they'll clip your wings forever
around your legs ???? she'll die
Throw you to extinction, in the new depressing world
They'll visit ????? wilderness on ?????
So I ???? you cathedral built on high, ???
??? you ????, a corruption in their sight
an intrusion among their ???? to recognise their ?????
So ?????????
Anecdote: Shortly after Lorna published the above lyrics to Silver Drifter, one Mark Kelly(!) writes to the list, informing Lorna and us others that it should be Skyline Drifter, not Silver Drifter. So there.