My Name Is Death Lyrics

The song My Name Is Death is performed by The Incredible String Band in the album named The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion in the year 2004 .



I am the question that cannot be answered,
I am the lover that cannot be lost,
Yet small are the gifts of my servant the soldier,
For time is my offspring, pray, what is my name?

My name is Death, cannot you see?
All life must turn to me;
Oh cannot you see?
And you must come with me,

You must come with me.
I'll give you gold and jewels rare,
And all my wealth in store.
All pleasures fair,
if I may live but a few short years more.
Oh lady, lay your jewels aside,
No more to glory in your pride.
Tarrying here there is no way,
Your time has come that you must away,
And you must come to clay.



The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion

Feb 2004

  1. Chinese White
  2. No Sleep Blues
  3. Painting Box
  4. Mad Hatter's Song
  5. Little Cloud
  6. Eyes of Fate
  7. Blues for the Muse
  8. Hedgehog's Song
  9. First Girl I Loved
  10. You Know What You Could Be
  11. My Name Is Death
  12. Gently Tender
  13. Way Back in the 1960's

My Name Is Death