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You thought the leaden winterWould bring you down forever But you rode upon a steamer To the violence of the sunAnd the colours of the seaBind your eyes with trembling mermaids And you touch the distant beaches With tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singing For the sparkling waves are calling you To kiss their white laced lipsAnd you see a girl’s brown bodyDancing through the turquoise And her footprints make you follow Where the sky loves the sea And when your fingers find her She drowns you in her body Carving deep blue ripples In the tissues of your mindTiny purple fishesRun laughing through your fingers And you want to take her with you To the hard land of the winterHer name is AphroditeAnd she rides a crimson shell And you know you cannot leave her For you touched the distant sands With tales of brave Ulysses How his naked ears were tortured By the sirens sweetly singingTiny purple fishesRun laughing through your fingers And you want to take her with you To the hard land of the winter