Cadenza

Lyrics by Ian Marshall and Ted Hughes
Music by Gary Radford

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The violinist turning blue
Makes love to the gypsy
In a six-sided room
The thread from a bobbin
Squeezes the sperm from him
As his shadow turns blue
Squeezes the sperm from him
As his shadow turns blue

What have we done to you?
Strangled your poetry
Destroyed you bodily
Violinist's shadow turining blue

The orchestra explodes
With the might of the atom
The ultimate stage show
A river of pure blue sweat
Sweeps away the orchestra
Now blown to smithereens
Sweeps away the orchestra
Now blown to smithereens

What have we done to you?
Strangled your poetry
Destroyed you bodily
Violinist's shadow turining blue

Bat with a ghost in mouth
Surveys the dismal sight
Skyscraper coffins lie
Within your own mind's eye
And you are the cargo
Struck at by lightnings of silence
And you are the cargo
Struck at by lightnings of silence

What have we done to you?
Strangled your poetry
Destroyed you bodily

Violinist's shadow disappears.........

Copyright 1980 by Ian Marshall and Gary Radford. All rights reserved


This page last updated March 22, 2002 by Gary Radford.
Many thanks to Kurt Wagner, Marie Radford, and Jon Oliver.