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Artist: The Incredible String Band
Canonical path: /the-incredible-string-band/dreams-of-no-return
Related lyric paths: 6
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Dreams Of No Return
Read Dreams Of No Return lyrics by The Incredible String Band on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Dreams Of No Return
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Dreams Of No Return
Dreams of no return
Waking in the early dawn
Dreams of no return
Waking in the early dawn
To whom I sourly yearned in my weakest spell
But what I could not know you could not show me
Old hotel the walls weep and the door leans
The blackbird quits the eaves
And the lonesome spider sings
Saw my sweet and soothing prayer
Was air
Why should you care
I never saw the tomb you they laid
There was already too much shade
What could it bring
What if you know
I need no hand of yours
But still I feel you kiss
While I have words to sing
Perhaps you treasure nothing
From before
In the time I had no friends
I held your picture like a tongueless bell
When I really saw I was wrong
I wrote this song to seem a fond farewell
I've been in the north west world
Looking out on an endless view
When you were any reason why
Was I really any use to you
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