Song Saturday; Pete Sinfield

Peter Sinfield

a very peaceful song,

THE SONG OF THE SEA GOAT

Sorry folks, due to problems with the site etc, didn’t have time to do the write up myself so just copied this;
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Peter John Sinfield (born on 27 December 1943 in Fulham Palace Road, Fulham, South West London) is an English writer and artist, most famously known as the lyricist for early incarnations of King Crimson. He contributed to In the Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard and Islands, which he also produced.

After being asked to leave the band by Robert Fripp after four albums, Sinfield continued to be active in the progressive rock scene. He produced Roxy Music's self-titled first album, and later recorded a solo album, Still, in 1973. (The album was reissued on CD with additional tracks as Stillusion.) In 1974 he also released a rare book called "Under The Sky: A Collection of Lyrics and Poems". He provided lyrics for fellow Crimson alumnus Greg Lake in Emerson, Lake & Palmer, as well as others like European rock group Esperanto, Italian progressive rock group PFM and former Procol Harum singer/pianist Gary Brooker.

Latterly, he has worked in the pop music field, mainly writing with Andy Hill, For example, he wrote the lyrics to "The Land of Make Believe" by Bucks Fizz. Together they picked up 2 Ivor Novello awards for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically": "Have You Ever Been In Love" sung by Leo Sayer in 1980 and "Think Twice" by Celine Dion in 1992. He has also written lyrics for another Crimson alumnus, David Cross

Sinfield is also known for his lyrics on Greg Lake's Christmas song "I Believe in Father Christmas". Released as a single in 1975, and then again on ELP's Works Volume II in 1977, it has now become a Christmas standard. Sinfield's visionary poetry is deeply influenced by William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake and Rainer Maria Rilke.

The Song of the Sea Goat

The sea goat casts Aquarian runes through beads of mirrored tears,
Suave pirates words of apricot crawl out of your veneer
Anoint your eyes with Midas' oil and make it still appear
Alladin's lamp is glowing bright transmuting panacea;
To fill your souls with sugared holes.
"Oh can't you hear" sang the sea goat "the nonsense makes me numb."
"It's near it's clear" sang the sea goat "we live tov overcome,
The madman's voice and his nowhere choice,
The pain that drains like an endless day of rain."

The sea goat reads the flight of birds and writes upon the sand;
Gold waterfalls of autumn wheat slip through a pointing hand
Whose fingers stiff with sentences still beckon to the band
To play the "Best Foot Forward March" and deafen all the land.
With hollow words, it's so absurd!
"Take your stand" sang the sea goat "the night goes on and on."
"Unwrap your plans" sang the sea goat "tell everyone you've gone
To touch the earth and to see the birth
The smile, the style down an unspun mile of life."

It fills the air! It fills the air!
The song of the sea goat shaking in the domes
The song of the sea goat as endlessly he roams,
Between the sunset's crimson veil
On smooth grey streets where the drunkard spins his tale.

The sea goat sips and hurls his glass along the
    smoke-filled road
Where shuttered snakes of brakeless trains run aching  with their load
Of spring-eyed, tonguetied, wooldyed lads who kiss the L-shaped goad
Which soon will smear their uniforms with blood, whitewash & woad.
Damn iron minded, gold braid blinded, officers and gentlemen!
"God!" sang the sea goat "is always on both sides."
"Change" sang the sea goat "is constant as the tides
"And this play" sang the sea goat "is strangely
    synthesised
When your part of a cast where the first comes last
Where the east goes west and the sun is burning out

And your part of a cast . . . . . ."