The Half-remarkable Question Lyrics - Incredible String Band

Who moved the black castle 

Who moved the white queen 

When Gimme and Daleth where standing between? 

Out of the evening growing a veil 

Pining for the pine woods that ached for the sail 

There's something forgotten I want you to know 

The freckles of rain they are telling me so 

Oh, it's the old forgotten question 

What is it that we are part of? 

And what is it that we are? 

And an elephant madness has covered the sun 

The judge and the juries they play for the fun 

They've torn up the roses and washed all the soap 

And the martyr who marries them dares not elope 

Oh, it's the never realized question 

What is it that we are part of? 

And what is it that we are? 

Oh long, oh long ever yet my eyes 

Braved the gates enormous fire 

And the body folded 'round me 

And the person in me grew 

The flower and its petal 

The root and its grasp 

The earth and its bigness 

The breath and its gasp 

The mind and its motion 

The foot and its move 

The life and its pattern 

The heart and its love 

Oh, it's the half-remarkable question 

What is it that we are part of? 

And what is it that we are?