Musical Interlude~Hippie Backsliding

Some days I am amazed by what's on youtube--I lost this album many years ago, but there is probably nothing that says counterculture more for me than Jimmy Spheeris' 1971 Isle of View. So enjoy a trip back in time with two cuts that can only be called classic, with lyrics even.

I am the Mercury

I cannot go anymore to the marshes
where the gatekeeper smiles at the poisons that he's made
for my heart belongs to the one on the mountain
where the doves build their nests in the sun-ripened glade

for I am the mercury - light of the morning
looking for shelter in this thunder and this rain
and you like some windmill weave light where its storming
your love like a potion for the hunger and the pain
Let it rain

I have been bought, I have been sold in the city
I've dined with the demons and I drank of their fear
but you, you have known and waited in silence
come cradle my heart in a homecoming tear

and we are the mercury - light of the morning
looking for shelter in this thunder and this rain
and he like some windmill weaves light where its storming
his love like a potion for the hunger and the pain

let it rain - let it rain
let it rain on the mountain
let it rain

The Nest

come to me now - dove on your shoulder
white flame of love burns on your breath
I am ready for flight
oh my wings are so ripe
come wake me
take me from the nest

the scarlet ships sail sacred oceans
where tides of love have laid to rest
quiet water by night
oh my sails are so ripe
come wake me
take me from the nest

and weave your beauty
fire lacing thru me
trip the light and know that I am waiting for you

unlock the treasure of stolen pleasure
breathe in the light that blinds the pain that we once knew
wake me
take me

come to me now - dove on your shoulder
white flame of love burns on your breath
I am ready for flight
oh my wings are so ripe
come wake me
take me from the nest
from the nest

sigh...good times.

Here's the Isle of View website where I found the lyrics