You Know What I Could Be Lyrics - Incredible String Band

You Know What You Could Be Lyrics 

Read your book and lose yourself 

In another's thoughts. 

He might tell you 'bout what is 

Or even 'bout what is not. 

And if he's kind and gentle too, 

And he loves the world a lot, 

His twilight words may melt the slush 

Of what you have been taught. 

You know what you could be. 

Tell me my friend, 

Why you worry all the time 

What you should been. 

Listen to the song of life. 

Its rainbow's end won't hold you. 

Its crimson shapes and purple sounds, 

Softly will enfold you. 

It gurgles through the timeless glade, 

In quartertone's of lightning. 

No policy is up for sale, 

In case the truth be frightening. 

You know what you could be. 

Tell me my friend, 

Why you worry all the time 

What you should be.