The Letters Lyrics - Live At The Orpheum - King Crimson

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: 

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"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" 

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