Blyth Power - Ixion
Channel: Ed Bates
Date: 01/09/2011

From the album Wicked Women, Wicked Men and Wicket Keepers

Some folks are never happy some are on the make
Some are not content with a slice 
And want the whole of the cake 
There's the greedy and the malcontents the weak and the strong
We don't entertain the thought 
That we could ever do anything wrong

Ixion's pinned to his wheel
Is he ever going to turn his face away 
Is he ever going to learn that it's never going to pay 
He's going to be turning round in circles forever and a day

An oath of desperation stifles tears of bitter rage 
The pen nib crawls in spiral scrawls 
Across the empty page 
Where once a year of inspiration could be written in a day
But what's the point in writing 
Now you've nothing more to say

If you could be an artist would you want to waste your time
Painting passions from a broken hearts
Imaginary lines 
If grey skies up above prevent you coming up for air 
Try to paint only the things that you see 
Not the ones you know to be there

Ixion's pinned to his wheel 
Is he ever going to turn his face away
Is he ever going to learn that it's never going to pay 
He's going to be turning round in circles
Forever and a day