Talisman

Burton Cummings / Randy Bachman

Trinket worn with colours matching saddened eyes has lost itsmagic touch
People from a distant hill have crossed an ever-stretching sea ofsand
Artificial flowers cannot die for life within them is illusion
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Figures made of pedigrees control the non-existent soul of JohnSmith
Walk the creature let it run but slacken not the rope to whichit's bound
Ships in bottles cannot sail and neither can a tombstone kill afeather
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

Kings are nothing more without the glory and the wealth behindtheir thinking
Let me feel the choice of seeing dawn or setting sun before Idie
Myriads of painted faces rush behind the eye of the uncertain
Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand

(Recitative)
Let me live only to do
And let me do only to live
My steel image comes with the sun
And that's where it slumbers now.

Talisman, talisman grace my hand
Talisman grace my hand.

Trivia about the song Talisman by The Guess Who

On which albums was the song “Talisman” released by The Guess Who?
The Guess Who released the song on the albums “American Woman” in 1970 and “Running Back Thru Canada” in 2000.
Who composed the song “Talisman” by The Guess Who?
The song “Talisman” by The Guess Who was composed by Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman.

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