The Half-Remarkable Question - The Incredible String Band

Who moved the black castle

Who moved the white queen

When Gimme and Daleth were standing between?

Out of the evening growing a veil

Pining for the pine woods that ached for the sail

There’s something forgotten I want you to know

The freckles of rain they are telling me so

Oh, it’s the old forgotten question

What is it that we are part of?

And what is it that we are?

And an elephant madness has covered the sun

The judge and the juries they play for the fun

They’ve torn up the roses and washed all the soap

And the martyr who marries them dares not elope

Oh, it’s the never realized question

What is it that we are part of?

And what is it that we are?

Oh long, oh long ever yet my eyes

Braved the gates enormous fire

And the body folded 'round me

And the person in me grew

The flower and its petal

The root and its grasp

The earth and its bigness

The breath and its gasp

The mind and its motion

The foot and its move

The life and its pattern

The heart and its love

Oh, it’s the half-remarkable question

What is it that we are part of?

And what is it that we are?