Robert Hunter - Ariel lyrics
rate meThe silver fox has shed its tail now<br />
Left it by the frozen water<br />
The leaves were drifting down<br />
Now they are gone, gone, gone<br />
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I draw milady's carriage<br />
Ever since her horse retired<br />
I don't think I can pull much longer<br />
I've never been this tired before<br />
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Up jump the black chain dancers<br />
Empty hands that grasp for answers<br />
Fasten on to one another, fly<br />
Fly away<br />
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Ariel is sweetly singing<br />
Wait you, just one more season<br />
You're not blind, you only hide your<br />
Eyes within your hands, within your hands<br />
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Ariel, Ariel<br />
Ariel, Ariel<br />
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There is no night like this night<br />
Where candles burn through daylight<br />
Minds restrained by golden tethers fade<br />
Fade away<br />
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The sun objects with smiling sadness<br />
Roman highways laced in diamonds<br />
Sink like grave Atlantis into<br />
Dreams of other days they fade away<br />
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Monuments to crippled madness<br />
Puppets dangle in the treetops<br />
The cold magician carves his voice in stone<br />
Then flies away, then flies away<br />
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Ariel sings overhead<br />
Deaf men mouth the words she's said<br />
But they don't hear the songs she's singing now<br />
Oh no, not now<br />
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Ariel, Ariel<br />
Ariel, Ariel<br />
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As wild and unholy place<br />
As any place I've ever been<br />
You can knock and knock and knock<br />
No one comes to let you in, no one comes<br />
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As solid and as fine a floor<br />
As any floor I've walked upon<br />
Broke beneath my footsteps<br />
I've got no place left to stand, not any more<br />
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Loves to love and not to chain<br />
Some are lost but some remain<br />
Nothing can replace the light<br />
That once has died turned to night, no one can<br />
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If I had the sense to know<br />
Which things count and which are show<br />
I'd hold my fate within my hands<br />
Instead of all these chains and bands<br />
Yes, I would<br />
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Ariel, Ariel<br />
Ariel, Ariel<br />
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Ariel, Ariel<br />
Ariel, Ariel<br />
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Ariel, Ariel<br />
Ariel, Ariel<br />
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