The Incredible String Band - See Your Face And I Know You lyrics

I sit down in the Underground trying to be gay

see the wild grass turn just into hay

I see the magic movement but they don't fly away

bad karma and it ricochets my eye

bad karma round me

the asp and the ashed and the infant of flame

Murgatroyd and Doris and the leper-leaping lame

the sad and the giggly and the black-suit swain

I see your face and know you

Easy as lightning I've laughed in the leaves

and I'd feel like Ali Baba when he quit the forty thieves

I can cruel no more so you cause me to grieve

I see your face and know you

I don't dig hating and I don't like to try

but how can I love you when you want me to die

oh Lord, live and learn

I see your face and know you

I wish I was springtime green as the snow

I'd sprinkle me with growing dust green for to grow

I'd leave here running 'cause walking's too slow

I see your face and know you

oh watch how the light comes new each day

if you learn how to wonder you will know how to pray

oh Lord, live and learn

I see your face and know you.