[00:00.00]Tales Of Brave Ulysses - Minnie Riperton
[00:09.57]You thought the leaden winter
[00:11.57]Would bring you down forever
[00:13.64]But you rode upon a steamer
[00:15.87]To the violence of the sun
[00:18.10]
[00:26.35]And the colours of the sea blind
[00:28.84]Your eyes with trembling mermaids
[00:29.85]And you touch the distant beaches
[00:33.05]With tales of brave Ulysses
[00:35.15]How his naked ears were tortured
[00:37.10]By the sirens sweetly singing
[00:39.26]For the sparkling waves are calling you to
[00:41.56]Kiss their white-laced lips
[00:43.81]
[01:10.01]And you see a girl's brown body dancing
[01:12.13]Through the turquoise
[01:14.46]And her footprints make you follow
[01:16.59]Where the sky loves the sea
[01:18.73]And when your fingers find her
[01:20.75]She drowns you in her body
[01:22.96]Carving deep blue ripples
[01:25.04]In the tissues of your mind
[01:27.69]
[01:55.71]The tiny purple fishes run
[01:57.98]Laughing through your fingers
[01:58.90]And you want to take her with
[02:00.37]You to the hard land of the winter
[02:02.59]
[02:12.00]Her name is Aphrodite and
[02:13.20]She rides a crimson shell
[02:15.47]And you know you cannot leave her
[02:17.77]For you touched the distant sands
[02:19.96]With tales of brave Ulysses
[02:21.95]How his naked ears were tortured
[02:24.07]By the sirens sweetly singing
[02:28.67]
[02:54.59]And the colours of the sea blind
[02:56.97]Your eyes with trembling mermaids
[02:59.05]And you touch the distant beaches
[03:01.20]With tales of brave Ulysses:
[03:03.28]How his naked ears were tortured
[03:05.63]By the sirens sweetly singing
[03:07.68]For the sparkling waves are calling you to
[03:10.01]Kiss their white-laced lips