Tales Of Brave Ulysses Lyrics

You thought the leaden winter
Would bring you down forever
But you rode upon a steamer
To the violence of the sun

And the colors of the sea
Blind your eyes with trembling mermaids
And you touch the distant beaches
With tales of brave Ulysses

How his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing
For the sparkling waves are calling you
To touch their white laced lips

And you see a girl's brown body
Dancing through the turquoise
And her footprints make you follow
Where the sky loves the sea

And when your fingers find her
She drowns you in her body
Carving deep blue ripples
In the tissues of your mind

The tiny purple fishes
Run laughing through your fingers
And you want to take her with you
To the hard land of the winter

Her name is Aphrodite
And she rides a crimson shell
you know you cannot leave her
For you touched the distant sands

With tales of brave Ulysses
How his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing
Yeah

The tiny purple fishes
Run laughing through your fingers
You want to take her with you
To the hard land of the winter

Cream - Those Were the Days

Sep 1997

1. Sleepy Time Time
2. Dreaming
3. Cat's Squirrel
4. Four Until Late
5. Rollin' And Tumblin'
6. Lawdy Mama
7. World Of Pain
8. Dance The Night Away
9. Blue Condition
10. Tales Of Brave Ulysses
11. Outside Woman Blues
12. Take It Back
13. Mother's Lament
14. Passing The Time
15. As You Said
16. Pressed Rat And Warthog
17. Doing That Scrapyard Thing
18. What A Bringdown
19. The Coffee Song
20. You Make Me Feel
21. Hey Now Princess
22. Weird Of Hermiston
23. The Clearout
24. Falstaff Beer Commercial
25. Stepping Out
26. Traintime
27. Toad