Song Of the Day // The Tales of Brave Ulysses, Cream

"Tales of Brave Ulysses"
is a song recorded in 1967 by British group Cream.
In the UK and US, it was released as the B-side to the "Strange Brew" single in June 1967.
In November, the song was included on Cream's second album, Disraeli Gears.
The song features one of the earliest uses of a wah-wah pedal, which guitarist Eric Clapton plays throughout the song.

LYRICS

You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever

But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun

And the colours of the sea bind your eyes with trembling mermaids

And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses

How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing

For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips

And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise

And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea

And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body

Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind

The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers

And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter

Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell

And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands

With tales of brave Ulysses, how his naked ears were tortured

By the sirens sweetly singing

The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers

And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter