From the recording Phantastes
Lyrics
One night, on what started out as a little a trip from the Staging Post
I go through the looking glass to see (Sweet liberty was lying in the grass absolutely free you see)
Subconsciously I’m searching for any trace of this elusive kiss
And just when I’m thinking I should give the whole thing a miss
I come across the ruins of a Marble Hall where the inside is the outside as much as the outside is
There a beautiful statue glows in the Nighttime abyss
By then I had kicked open a good few doors of perception
And now this Marble Lady became my obsession
Deep down in her smile The Marble Lady comes alive
Then she is gone, gone from the pedestal The figures fly from the frieze Phantastes
I see her form disappear into the darkness So I strike a match and it lights up the whole sky
The box is gone in a flash (of course) and was she ever nearby?
Deep Space Cadet with quicksilver emotion Boldly going to earn an astral promotion I measure up a universe unseen
With super-imposed geometric grids of purple and green
Everything’s dilated, even time itself in the ripples of the Pool of Soon
Where the statue comes toward me in a reflection .. of the days to come
Deep down in her smile
The Marble Lady comes alive
Then she is gone, gone from the pedestal The figures fly from the frieze Phantastes
I follow her into the trees “Have you seen her?” I ask
But the trees look at me like I’m crazy
So I embrace the very earth to feel her vibrations maybe,
But I get attacked by a gang of green flourescent emmets And through the living nettle stings I ask the trees again, “Did she go by this way?”
Because deep down in her smile
The Marble Lady came alive
And now she is gone, gone from the pedestal
Her figure flew from the frieze
Phantastes
“Excuse me. Sorry. Did you see a .. marble lady .. go by this way? .. No. OK. I guess it’s back to the lab.”