Talisman

[Verse 1]

Trinket worn with colors matching saddened eyes

Has lost its magic touch

People from a distant hill

Have crossed an ever-stretching sea of sand

Artificial flowers cannot die

For life within them is illusion

[Chorus]

Talisman, talisman grace my hand

Talisman grace my hand

[Verse 2]

Figures made of pedigrees

Control the non-existent soul of John Smith

Walk the creature let it run

But slacken not the rope to which its bound

Ships in bottles cannot sail

And neither can a tombstone kill a feather

[Chorus]

Talisman, talisman grace my hand

Talisman grace my hand

[Verse 3]

Kings are nothing more without the glory

And the wealth behind their thinking

Let me feel the choice of seeing

Dawn or setting sun before I die

Myriads of painted faces

Rush behind the eye of the uncertain

[Chorus]

Talisman, talisman grace my hand

Talisman grace my hand

[Verse 4]

Let me live only to do

And let me do only to live

My steel image comes with the sun

And that's where it slumbers now

[Chorus]

Talisman, talisman grace my hand

Talisman grace my hand