{"id":40,"date":"2016-10-05T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/glaik\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:40:00","slug":"glaik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/2016\/10\/05\/glaik\/","title":{"rendered":"Glaik"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nGLAIK <\/span><\/b>
\n(The Illusion of the Lake)<\/span>
\n\u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry Feb 1971<\/span>
\n
<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\nI tried to catch the sun<\/span><\/div>\n
\nbut it was only a reflection in the water.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI was only seeking treasure<\/span><\/div>\n
\nBut I ended up ‘kissing the gunner’s daughter’<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nThe velvet coated bard I followed,<\/span><\/div>\n
\nwas just a caird who was in a play.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI looked up to the sky to see<\/span><\/div>\n
\nthey had blackened ‘the eye of the day<\/i>‘.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nchorus<\/span>
\nGlaik – (sang as in Gkl ai..ai..K (3 times) <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n           The Illusion of the lake.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI went to see the archimage <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nbut he turned out to be just a javel.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI pulled the bedclothes back<\/span><\/div>\n
\nto see a snake unravel.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI almost made the rainbow’s end<\/span><\/div>\n
\nwhen it suddenly turned wan.<\/span><\/div>\n
\nI gledged upon a peacock,<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nwho suddenly lost his fan.<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\n………<\/span>
\n
<\/span>
\nSame story as for Beneath the Phaeic Sky. Written for Railroad. Glaik is an archaic word for illusion.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GLAIK  (The Illusion of the Lake) \u00a9Trev Teasdel Coventry Feb 1971 I tried to catch the sun but it was only a reflection in the water. I was only seeking treasure But I ended up ‘kissing the gunner’s daughter’ The … 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\/40"}],"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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/trevteasdellyrics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}