Key: A minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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When I used to live here as a poacher of men
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the door
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Now that the people have all
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disappeared
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There is only left the faint impression
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of a cube in leaves
Verse 2
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Tendrils surging up
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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dressing game
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the day he became a man
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And watched from the kitchen window
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I kept a vigil for a month before I
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madе a fire of his hissing clothes
Verse 4
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Tendrils surging up
Interlude 2
Overflowing cup
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Verse 5
a ship bound for Naxos
But they altered the course
to sell him as a slave
He filled their ears with the sound
of a thousand reeds
Which drove them out of their
minds and into the sea
The black beams of the
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deck ooze wine
Interlude 3
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To Ikarios taught the secret of winemaking
But the drunk shepherds thought
poisoned they had been
So they stoned him to death
In plain view of his daughter
Who threw her dog down a well
And hung herself from a tree
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A god overwhelmed with sor row
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Verse 7
His own cousin refused
to recognise his power
Thus the menfolk of Athens were
rendered impotent
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Pentheus him self was torn
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Limb from limb by his own mother
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Good wine needs no bush
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Verse 8
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He reluctantly granted the wish of
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a greedy king
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to gold;
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An oak twig, a pebble,
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a beetle
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As the world around him turned to stone
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, the king was quite delighted
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He very soon realised the error of
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his choice
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A roll of bread turned to a nugget
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in his hand
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The petals of his flower petrified
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falling scentless
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froze in his em brace
Verse 9
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Tendrils surging up
Verse 10
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he rides
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out to the underworld
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In his fist held aloft a fennel wand
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Seeking to extricate
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his mother
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From the torments of fate's flame
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Verse 11
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Ahhhh- ahhhhhh- ahhhh
Outro 1
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