When You Find Out Who You Are Lyrics - Incredible String Band

It's of a strange and furious time 

when men did speed to pray 

Along the road of discontent to gods of gold and clay 

Some did seek security 

Among the seas of change 

And some did seek dear life to wound 

a furious time and strange 

But when you find out who you are 

Beautiful beyond your dreams 

Just look around and 

notice where you are 

Just look around and notice what you see 

Each moment born for you innocently 

But when I see what we have made 

What we have out with the mind's blade 

In the blackness feel it all 

Repeated faces rise and fall 

With ancient goals unwondering fail 

Further obscure the ancient trail 

Filling with the endless years 

The river of your heart's tears 

I swear you have the power 

as the angels do 

Spread out your fingers and 

make all things new 

Change the world by the things you say 

By the things you love 

And by the games you play 

And you make each new day 

It feels so funny in your mummy's tummy 

Before you get born into 

the world for to carry on 

Remember young man of the time 

before you first went to school 

How did it feel trying to live to the rule 

Remember young man of the time 

when your love stick 

First rose free between your legs 

Like a growing tree 

Remember you walked with your lover 

Like a gypsy and a gypsy queen 

Under the stars where the sign was seen 

Under the stars where 

the leaves were green 

Under the stars where the sign was seen 

0 how many shining hearts 

With love has guided me 

And many I have met before 

in lands across the sea 

We used to speak of that ocean deep 

How little words can say 

It's better now to ask your friend 

What makes him sad today