The Incredible String Band - Douglas Traherne Harding lyrics
[The Incredible String Band - Douglas Traherne Harding lyrics]
When I was born I had no head
My eye was single and my
Body was filled with light
And the light that I was was
The light that I saw by
And the light that I saw by
Was the light that I was
One light
Light that is one though the lamps be many
And many's the time that I've
Crossed by the river
And I saw no tollman and I
Needed no ferryman to cross
And I enjoyed the world aright
For the sea it'self floweth
And warm I was and crowned
But one day walking towards the river
I saw a tollman with an angry face
And many's the time I passed his tollgate
And paid no silver and paid no fee
But rather I did hide my sheep and
Goats under the bags of oatmeal
And cold I was, no crown did I wear
But if you're walking down the street
Why don't you look down to the basement
For sitting very quietly there is a
Man who has no head
His eye is single and his whole
Body also is filled with light
One light
Light that is one though the lamps be many
And as he sit's there so he
Will walk all among you
And the streets are his and all the people
And even the temples and the whole world
And many's the time that he
Walks to the river
And seeing the tollman and
Seeing the ferryman
The light within him leaps to greet them
For he sees that their faces
Are none but his own
One light
Light that is one though the lamps be many
You never enjoy the world aright
"Till the sea it'self floweth
In your veins till you are clothed
With the heavens and crowned with the stars"
My eye was single and my
Body was filled with light
And the light that I was was
The light that I saw by
And the light that I saw by
Was the light that I was
One light
Light that is one though the lamps be many
And many's the time that I've
Crossed by the river
And I saw no tollman and I
Needed no ferryman to cross
And I enjoyed the world aright
For the sea it'self floweth
And warm I was and crowned
But one day walking towards the river
I saw a tollman with an angry face
And many's the time I passed his tollgate
And paid no silver and paid no fee
But rather I did hide my sheep and
Goats under the bags of oatmeal
And cold I was, no crown did I wear
But if you're walking down the street
Why don't you look down to the basement
For sitting very quietly there is a
Man who has no head
His eye is single and his whole
Body also is filled with light
One light
Light that is one though the lamps be many
And as he sit's there so he
Will walk all among you
And the streets are his and all the people
And even the temples and the whole world
And many's the time that he
Walks to the river
And seeing the tollman and
Seeing the ferryman
The light within him leaps to greet them
For he sees that their faces
Are none but his own
One light
Light that is one though the lamps be many
You never enjoy the world aright
"Till the sea it'self floweth
In your veins till you are clothed
With the heavens and crowned with the stars"