The Letters Lyrics

The song The Letters is performed by King Crimson in the album named Ladies of the Road in the year 2002 .



With quill and silver knife
She carved a poison pen
Wrote to her lover's wife:
"your husband's seed has fed my flesh".

As if a leper's face
That tainted letter graced
The wife with choke-stone throat
Ran to the day with tear-blind eyes.

Impaled on nails of ice
And raked with emerald fire
The wife with soul of snow
With steady hands begins to write:

"i'm still, I need no life
To serve on boys and men
What's mine was yours is dead
I take my leave of mortal flesh"



King Crimson - Ladies of the Road

Nov 2002

  1. Pictures of a City
  2. The Letters
  3. Formentera Lady (abridged)
  4. The Sailors Tale
  5. Cirkus
  6. Groon
  7. Get Thy Bearings
  8. 2Ist Century Schizoid Man
  9. In the Court of the Crimson King
  10. 21st Century Schizoid Man

The Letters