{"id":39,"date":"2016-10-05T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/beneath-the-phaeic-sky\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:45:00","slug":"beneath-the-phaeic-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/beneath-the-phaeic-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Phaeic Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nBENEATH THE PHAEIC SKY<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry March 1971<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe Black Knight’s spectre<\/span><\/div>\n
\nProwls the battlements.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBeneath the phaeic sky,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nSounds his sad lament.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe phantom pillion rider groans,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nas he leaps a lazing stile.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe faceless henchman totes his gun,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nand points it with beguile.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd the shivers of my uncertainty<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nCloud my mind so I can’t see.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe moon has closed her eyes,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nto the surreptitious hand of fate.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe groined passageway becomes alive,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nOrnamental armoury vibrates.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe trees they are approaching now<\/span><\/div>\n
\nLike Birnam Wood on old McBeth.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe assassin’s blade drips with blood,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThere’s a stench of cobwebbed death.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd the shivers of my uncertainty<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nCloud my mind so I can’t see.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBeelzebub whets his fangs,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nand summons the firedrake.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAs a prudent Aquila swoops in,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nalong the monsters wake.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe unsuspecting demon squirms,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nwith the stab of a venom tongue.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nAnd the shivers of my uncertainty<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\nCloud my mind so I can’t see.<\/span><\/i>
\n
<\/span>
\n…..<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nIn 1970 Coventry drummer Steve Harrison as me to write some lyrics for his band The Mick Green Blues Band, which I did and then a new band Nack ed en with Loz Netto -later of Sniff and the Tears and John Bradbury – later of the Specials. In 1971,the Mick Green Blues Band had reformed as Railroad with slightly altered line up. The practiced in the theatre of the Coventry Arts Umbrella club and asked me to write some lyrics and maybe try out vocals. I borrowed a PA system and tried it out. I didn’t get in the band and they split up again before any gigs but this is one of the lyrics i wrote for them at that stage.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BENEATH THE PHAEIC SKY \u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry March 1971 The Black Knight’s spectre Prowls the battlements. Beneath the phaeic sky, Sounds his sad lament. The phantom pillion rider groans, as he leaps a lazing stile. The faceless henchman totes his … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}