Peter Hammill - A Ritual Mask
From Loop and Reels, 1983
A Ritual Mask upon the wall furnishes his surroundings and he thinks that’s all.
A Ritual Mask, its power still strong, a memento of his travels, that he got for a song.
He got it for a song.
It was the song of the centuries undisturbed, the song of secrets and power words; the song of a culture not grown immune to the virus of progress, to the theft of the tune.
The Ritual Mask, the evil eye inhabits his apartment, inhabits his mind with a song of vengeance, a song of a debt repaid, a song of justice, a song of a hand unstayed, a song of a culture as old as the hills… that sits uneasy on the living-room wall like a snake about to kill.
The Ritual Mask, it won’t take long before he finds out the bargain has turned out dreadfully wrong.
Oh, he got it for a song.
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