October Song-The Incredible String Band

[ti:October Song] [ar:The Incredible String Band] [al:The Incredible String Band] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]October Song - The Incredible String Band [00:16.57]I'll sing you this October song [00:20.46]Oh there is no song before it [00:25.70]The words and tune are none of my own [00:29.64]For my joys and sorrows bore it [00:33.60]Beside the sea [00:37.27]The brambly briars in the still of evening [00:45.73]Birds fly out behind the sun [00:49.92]And with them I'll be leavng [01:09.08]The fallen leaves that jewel the ground [01:17.53]They know the art of dying [01:22.31]And leave with joy their glad gold hearts [01:26.45]In the scarlet shadows lying [01:30.44]When hunger calls my footsteps home [01:38.00]The morning follows after [01:42.92]I swim the seas within my mind [01:46.99]And the pine trees laugh green laughter [02:07.77]I used to search for happiness [02:11.61]And I used to follow pleasure [02:16.73]But I found a door behind my mind [02:21.12]And that's the greatest treasure [02:25.34]For rulers like to lay down laws [02:34.41]And rebels like to break them [02:39.21]And the poor priests like to walk in chains [02:43.74]And God likes to forsake them [03:02.61]I met a man whose name was Time [03:12.68]And he said "I must be going" [03:17.53]But just how long ago that was [03:21.90]I have no way of knowing [03:25.90]Sometimes I want to murder time [03:33.74]Sometimes when my heart's aching [03:39.10]But mostly I just stroll along [03:43.61]The path that he is taking [03:47.02] [03:47.63]