THE LOVERS (FOR PAMELA COLMAN SMITH)
Words and music by Sarah McQuaid & Zoë Pollock
Recorded on Mama: Crow Coyote Buffalo (2009)
Wands of willow, swords of steel
The dancing fool and fortune’s wheel
With watercolour, ink and pen
She makes the symbols live again
The Lovers ...
She lets the music guide her hand
To ancient times and other lands
Joins in esoteric rites
That satisfy strange appetites
The Lovers ...
Blood from the broken cup
Fire from the sky
Unseen hands to lift it up
Stars falling on earth
Blood from the broken cup
Hooded and bound
Unseen hands to lift it up
She seeks further
The Lovers ...
Hearing pictures, seeing sounds
Crimson wings and oak leaf crowns
She gives the poet’s vision form
A sister of the Golden Dawn
The Lovers ...
