The Letters

Peter John Sinfield, Robert Fripp

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

"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"

Trivia about the song The Letters by King Crimson

On which albums was the song “The Letters” released by King Crimson?
King Crimson released the song on the albums “Islands” in 1971, “Ladies of the Road: Live 1971-1972” in 2002, “The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson – Volume One – 1969-1974” in 2004, “Islands - 40th Anniversary Series” in 2010, “Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind” in 2016, “Live In Toronto” in 2016, and “Meltdown (Live in Mexico, 2017)” in 2018.
Who composed the song “The Letters” by King Crimson?
The song “The Letters” by King Crimson was composed by Peter John Sinfield, Robert Fripp.

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