The Gryphon Lyrics
Cynthia McQuillin

The gryphon slept upon the sand as I walked out one morning
And there beneath the silver strand I spied him without warning
His splendor woke desire in me, I vowed that I would have him.
Of all the powers in the world, not one of them could save him.

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But no cage was ever made to hold a creature such as he.
No chain was ever forged to bind the wind.
And when I think about all the scars he left on me,
The cruelest are the ones I bear within.

Softly I crept near to him, bound him in a subtle cage
I trapped him with my sorcery, but it only woke his rage.
He clawed me with his weapons, intelligent and skilled,
With raking claw and fiery eye, and the fury of his will.

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(For no cage)

Our battle raged from gentle dawn until the bloody eve.
He cut me twice I bound him still beyond his hope to leave.
Though he weakened in my power still, the victory was mine.
I feared that he would kill me but for the freedom of his kind.

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(But)

At last he stilled his struggles, and lay down upon the sand.
His pelt was smeared and matted, his feathers limp and fanned.
But his eyes were fierce with hatred and I knew that he would die
If I chained him with my passion and kept him from the sky.

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With ragged breath and anguished sigh I stroked his feathered head.
I pleaded that he understand the words that I had said
For all the pain of loosing him, and the power I?d never know.
I broke the spell that held him there and I let the gryphon go.

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Oh the cruelest is, the memory of him...