Talisman lyrics

Song information

Artist: The Guess Who
Album: American Woman

Lyrics

(Bachman-cummings)
Trinkets worn with colours matching, 'saddened eyes' has lost its magic touch
People from a distance will have crossed an ever-stretching sea of sand
Artificial flowers cannot die for life within them is illusion
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Figures made of pedigrees control the non-existent soul of john smith
Walk the creature let it run but slacken not the rope to which it's bound
Ships in bottles cannot sail and neither can a tombstone 'cheer' a feather
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Kings are nothing more without the glory and the wealth behind their thinking
Let me feel the choice of seeing dawn or setting sun before I die
Myriads of painted faces rush behind the eye of the uncertain
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

(Recitative)
Let me live only to do
And let me do only to live
My steel image comes with the sun
And that's where it slumbers now

Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

"American Woman" album track list