[Dragaera] Iconaclastic lyrics

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 5/4/07, Howard Brazee  wrote:

>   I put lyrics in my iPod, but recognize that some of my lyrics were
> guessing.   If someone could listen to */A Rose For Iconoclastes/*, and
> edit my lyrics, I would appreciate corrections.


> =======================
> Neil Gaiman Pastiche #27
>     Steven Brust
> ------------
> Come to me my dark haired one, see what I have brought:

It's "wrought", not "brought".

> a sliver ring, a blackened moon, a feather.
> You will not thank me though you ought
> for all these gifts that I have brought
> but remember me when you have got a heart that's hard as leather.

  "caught the heart", not "got a heart"

>
> (chorus)
>     My gift would be eternity
>     but life is far too frail
>     and lies are frozen colors
>     with truth in each detail.
>
> Your ears won't hear, your eyes won't see,
> your hand could not accept.
> The gifts I brought to sacrifice too late.
> I shaped them all of tears I wept
> But we both thought that we both slept
> A tale within a tale has crept inside the iron gate.
>
> (chorus)
> (women's voices)
> (chorus)
>
> Fast upon the darkness now, I think I see a light
> but it lies like misty breath within the clouds

This is hard to make out, but the printed lyrics say:
 "within the glass"

> the feather drifts beyond my sight
> the moon turns pale from shame or fright
> the rain just spins from day to knight, and knows that it will pass.

 It's "night", not "knight".

>
>     My gift would be eternity
>     but life is far too frail
>     and gifts refused are lies untold
>     and therein lies the tale.

> (women's voices)

Harmony vocals are Sara Diedrich and Frank Runyon, it says here.