The Incredible String Band - Ithkos lyrics

Sardis(Oud Tune)

Lesbos-Dawn

Lesbos-Evening

Aegean Sea

Dreams Fade

Port of Sybaris

Go down Sybaris

Huntress

Hold my gaze

I sailed out from Sardis just one day past

Ithkos Ithkos

Sailed ot 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

Gotta come right out and say it

Pale Sybaris I bear you great scorn

Tlakin' 'bout your fluted pillars and your muted life

It's worse to me

Than Death's own chariot rollin'

Oh hold my gaze light of day

That my thoughts they will not stray

To Hippolyta

The vows that set her free

Denied me

It was right there in Sybaris famed

That I met with her who's named

Hippolyta

Oh hold my gaze bring not the sight

Of that awful wondrous night

Far outside the city walls

Hte Huntress Dance does call

Hippolyta

And the vows that set her free

Denied me