Singer/Songwriter, Poetry Ian Melvin
Consider Phlebas

This song in it's original form and based upon t s eliot's poem Death By Water from The Wasteland has previously been posted in a re-written 'original' version called soundcloud.com/ian-melvin/the-...comandante-live

Death By Water

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

Read more: T. S. Eliot: Death by Water — Infoplease.com infoplease.com/t/lit/wasteland...l#ixzz2GkQZiWnx