You Know What You Could Be Lyrics

The song You Know What You Could Be is performed by The Incredible String Band in the album named The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion in the year 2004 .



Read your book and lose yourself
In another's thoughts.
He might tell you 'bout what is
Or even 'bout what is not.

And if he's kind and gentle too,
And he loves the world a lot,
His twilight words may melt the slush
Of what you have been taught.

You know what you could be.
Tell me my friend,
Why you worry all the time
What you should been.

Listen to the song of life.
Its rainbow's end won't hold you.
Its crimson shapes and purple sounds,
Softly will enfold you.

It gurgles through the timeless glade,
In quartertones of lightning.
No policy is up for sale,
In case the truth be frightening.

You know what you could be.
Tell me my friend,

Why you worry all the time
What you should be.



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

You Know What You Could Be