The Castle in the Air

The Castle in the Air is the third song on the album Polygondwanaland.

Lyrics
''The river opened her mouth and spat into a vast sea larger and bluer than a cloudless sky. Muscular, prodigious, immortal. But our vessel was invulnerable. It was well built, the boat rocked me into sleep and I floated through a deep dream, smooth sailing through the castle in the air...''

One-eyed people living peaceful

With monopods and astomi.

Without malice or guile,

Without covetousness.

And there's men whose heads do

Grow beneath their shoulders.

Maybe we'll find the world's center,

Where equinox casts no shadow.

Spread our teaching -

Alleviate their damnation.

Without us they will go to hell -

We are casting spells.

Could it be faithful?

It couldn't seem more real.

As I opened my eyes

The dream de-colourised.

'Til it was obscured

And the harsh reality hit me like salty water

Trivia

 * Leah Senior reprises her role as the reticent raconteur for the spoken word passage (italicised above) in this song.