The Mad Hatter's Song-The Incredible String Band

[ti:The Mad Hatter's Song] [ar:The Incredible String Band] [al:The Circle Is Unbroken: Live and Studio 1967-1972] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mad Hatter's Song - The Incredible String Band [00:11.30]Oh seekers of spring how could you not find contentment [00:20.27]In a time of riddling reasons in [00:22.41]This land of the blind [00:27.58] [00:28.11]By the joke of fate alone it's sure [00:30.40]That as the loved hand leaves you [00:32.64]You clutch for the slip-stream [00:34.65]The realness to find [00:43.96] [00:44.51]But do what you like [00:48.55]Do what you like do what you like [00:54.49]Do what you like do what you like [00:58.13]Do what you can [00:59.59]Do what you can live [01:02.13]Till you die my poor little man [01:14.65]For Jesus will stretch out [01:16.87]His hand no more [01:21.36] [01:23.21]But in the south there's [01:25.23]Many a waving tree [01:28.29] [01:28.87]Oh would that musky fingers [01:31.24]Move your pain [01:34.25] [01:34.83]In the warm south winds [01:36.54]The lost flowers bloom again [01:39.49] [01:40.40]And if you cried you know [01:44.81]You'd fill a lake with tears [01:49.15] [01:50.08]Still wouldn't turn back the years [01:54.49] [01:55.68]Since the city has took you [01:59.27]Mad Hatter is on my mind [02:02.38] [02:04.11]So sad sad to see the way it grew [02:13.66]Those other people that I knew [02:19.21]That have either fell or faltered [02:22.76]Mad Hatter is on my mind [02:26.54] [02:27.71]And you must have to see clear some time [02:37.67] [02:40.99]Prometheus the problem child [02:44.32]Still juggling with his brains [02:47.65] [02:48.33]Gives his limping leopard's visions [02:51.40]To the miser in his veins [02:55.70]Saying Gods are indigestions [02:58.08]I come for gain [03:00.08] [03:01.57]But I am the archer the lover of laughter [03:10.46]And mine is the arrowed flight [03:15.23] [03:15.92]I am the archer and my eyes yearn [03:20.77]After the unsullied sight [03:29.09]Born of the dark waters [03:32.62]Of the daughters of night [03:37.50] [03:38.14]Dancing without movement [03:40.21]After the clear light [03:50.97] [03:53.64]Oh Perithian fate be kind in the rumbling [03:59.48]And trundling rickshaw of time [04:03.76] [04:05.47]Hooked by the heart to the king fisher's line [04:14.05] [04:17.96]I will set my one eye for the shores of the blind