Ariel Lyrics - Singles - Robert Hunter

The silver fox has shed its tail now 

Left it by the frozen water 

The leaves were drifting down 

Now they are gone, gone, gone 

I draw milady's carriage 

Ever since her horse retired 

I don't think I can pull much longer 

I've never been this tired before 

Up jump the black chain dancers 

Empty hands that grasp for answers 

Fasten on to one another, fly 

Fly away 

Ariel is sweetly singing 

Wait you, just one more season 

You're not blind, you only hide your 

Eyes within your hands, within your hands 

Ariel, Ariel 

Ariel, Ariel 

There is no night like this night 

Where candles burn through daylight 

Minds restrained by golden tethers fade 

Fade away 

The sun objects with smiling sadness 

Roman highways laced in diamonds 

Sink like grave Atlantis into 

Dreams of other days they fade away 

Monuments to crippled madness 

Puppets dangle in the treetops 

The cold magician carves his voice in stone 

Then flies away, then flies away 

Ariel sings overhead 

Deaf men mouth the words she's said 

But they don't hear the songs she's singing now 

Oh no, not now 

Ariel, Ariel 

Ariel, Ariel 

As wild and unholy place 

As any place I've ever been 

You can knock and knock and knock 

No one comes to let you in, no one comes 

As solid and as fine a floor 

As any floor I've walked upon 

Broke beneath my footsteps 

I've got no place left to stand, not any more 

Loves to love and not to chain 

Some are lost but some remain 

Nothing can replace the light 

That once has died turned to night, no one can 

If I had the sense to know 

Which things count and which are show 

I'd hold my fate within my hands 

Instead of all these chains and bands 

Yes, I would 

Ariel, Ariel 

Ariel, Ariel 

Ariel, Ariel 

Ariel, Ariel 

Ariel, Ariel 

Ariel, Ariel 

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