The Incredible String Band - Ithkos (Part 1/2)

The first part of "Ithkos" by The Incredible String Band, from their final album "Hard Rope and Silken Twine". You can find the remainder of the song in part 2 of the upload.

Lyrics:

I sailed out from Sardis just one day past
Ithkos, Ithkos
Sailed to meet the dawn on Lesbos fair
Ithkos, Ithkos
My marchant's task on this isle is done
I call soft evening forht
To ease up my care

Aphrodite's temple is sweet with sandorac
Bright torches start the night to praise her
Ithkos wipes his mouth and drops the wineskin
Salt wind fresh in his mind

Bark brown eyes has Ithkos
From Sardis newly come
The carmined lips of Lesbos fail to please
And through the noisy night
Just one plaintive song will match his heart

The beautiful Aegean sea
Brings out a weeping need in me
I can't stand by
Like a thief in the night
While that aching lovely light
Shines on

Dreams fade now, a new day rings
Trade pulls the galleon ever on
To rich Sybaris, port of our call
Beyond the blue Aegean

How sweet the sight of peopled shores
To a wanderer as I
Kown from here to Lydia far
Pale Sybaris knows not my tread
And fear stalks in my heart
For reason unknown...

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[sharonpayne28]

the song has no ending

[MrWingowango]

LOVE IT

[idurmo]

"Incredible."