Trinket worn with colours matching saddened eyes has lost itsmagic touch
People from a distant hill have crossed an ever-stretching sea ofsand
Artificial flowers cannot die for life within them is illusion
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Figures made of pedigrees control the non-existent soul of JohnSmith
Walk the creature let [bad word] but slacken not the rope to whichit's bound
Ships in bottles cannot sail and neither can a tombstone kill afeather
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Kings are nothing more without the glory and the wealth behindtheir thinking
Let me feel the choice of seeing dawn or setting sun before Idie
Myriads of painted [bad word] behind the eye of the uncertain
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

(Recitative)
Let me live only to do
And let me do only to live
My steel [bad word] with the sun
And that's where it slumbers now.

Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.