The Letters lyrics - King Crimson song
With quill and silver knife
She carved a poison pen
Wrote to her lover's wife:
'Your husband's seed has fed my flesh'.
As if a leper's face
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.
Impaled on nails of ice
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write:
'I'm still, I need no life
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh'
She carved a poison pen
Wrote to her lover's wife:
'Your husband's seed has fed my flesh'.
As if a leper's face
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.
Impaled on nails of ice
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write:
'I'm still, I need no life
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh'
The Letters lyrics
Islands album songs
released 1971 via1. Formentera Lady
2. Sailor's Tale
3. The Letters
4. Ladies Of The Road
5. Prelude: Song Of The Gulls
6. Islands
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check here the lyrics for The Letters, the 3th song of the 6 recorded for the album Islands, with a total running time of , by King Crimson. It was released on via , and produced by .