The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140662   Message #3233921
Posted By: GUEST,josepp
04-Oct-11 - 05:52 PM
Thread Name: The Art Bears
Subject: RE: The Art Bears
I had the vinyl from '79. It had a folio or booklet with the lyrics and each song had a stone image from an old European church. Remarkable images. I also had a vinyl of them live in Poland. And I think I had them on a Ralph Records compilation.

The Slave

Once as the sun was setting
A slave came to the gates
Day dying

On its fiery tongue
An Opal lay
Of copper spun

Then did we dream?
Or were our houses lambent gold
In Winter's pool
Did glory pass and hold us speechless in its spell?

Where he had fallen used and cast aside
All he had touched
Was trembling and alive

Each life is present in this way
Each fashioned thing speaks of its change