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Pleasant Shadow Song Lyrics
I heard of a place
That Time can't erase
Of beauty and grace
Beulah!
You scoff at my card
Guess I'm no Abelard
"I don't know ..." just how far
is Beulah
Would only to song
weren't bucolic and wrong
and shadow a long twilight
Always to play
and sleep through the day
for music and night
Enough with these books
Carrion and hooks
Ill will and looks
But to Beulah
To pull the forefront
Health for starvation
I've grown impatient
For Beulah
That Time can't erase
Of beauty and grace
Guess I'm no Abelard
"I don't know ..." just how far
is Beulah
weren't bucolic and wrong
and shadow a long twilight
Always to play
and sleep through the day
for music and night
Carrion and hooks
Ill will and looks
But to Beulah
Health for starvation
I've grown impatient
For Beulah
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"weren't indulgent and wrong" -> "weren't bucolic and wrong" (from liner notes)
Thanks, perhaps you got a second pressing of the album? I transcribed them from my linear notes, and my clearly says "indulgent" but I listened to the track and he does say "bucolic." Regardless, I changed the lyrics. Thanks for the correction.
Thanks, perhaps you got a second pressing of the album? I transcribed them from my linear notes, and my clearly says "indulgent" but I listened to the track and he does say "bucolic." Regardless, I changed the lyrics. Thanks for the correction.
"You scoff at my card Guess I'm no Abelard"
Pierre Abelard was a French intellectual who was considered "all-knowing" in his day. Perhaps this line is someone reading someone's tarot and admitting he doesn't know all.
"I don't know ..." just how far is Beulah"
Perhaps this is a reference to someone asking a tarot reader when he will die and not knowing the answer.
"Beulah" refers to the afterlife or a separate and peaceful existence. I think the entire song is a frustration with living on earth.
Lyrics such as "Ill will and looks" refers to the cruelty of humans and a wish to just get to the afterlife already. "and shadow a long twilight Always to play and sleep through the day for music and night"
This is my favorite part of the song -- not only for the lyrics, but also for the way it's sung.