an updated medieval love ballad
jives
Story behind the song
song speaks for itself
Lyrics
Wholly Grail (Jennifer Ives)
Within the walls of Camelot the holy grail was found
In the trembling fingers of a ragged vagabond.
Traveller and a troubadour
Prisoned in his room
Which, when the siege was ended, sealed his tomb.
High in minstrels' gallery, Guenivere looked on
As the scripts blew away from
Their medieval passion play.
Lyric and harmony sailed to the stained glass sky
To crash and burn in the light of day.
For the feasting left him empty. Bottle kept him dry.
Hunger filled his soul and vision dimmed his skies.
Desire slaked the demons; wrote the lines between the words
Salt water fell from his eyes.
Betrayal left him heartless, breathless at the last.
No vision of the future...fragile memories of the past.
Lancelot ran bleeding through the Burghers and the Dames
Naked to the world in his sorrow and shame.
And we listened to the music. Never heard the song.
Questions and the mysteries which haunted for so long.
Consumed by frost and fire, this hollow, aching husk,
Took a gasping breath and blew himself away.
Consumed by frost and fire, she stumbled to the river
And became the journey, the vessel and the tide.
Betrayal left her heartless and breathless at the last
And drifted her, unguided, to the sea.
For the feasting left her empty. Bottle kept her dry.
Hunger filled her soul and vision dimmed her skies.
Desire slaked the demons; wrote the lines between the words
Salt water fell from her eyes.
Salt water fell from her eyes.