A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton

A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn

Columnated ruins domino

Canvass the town and brush the backdrop

Are you sleeping?

Hung velvet overtaken me

Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall a costly bow

The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumperter swan
Columnated ruins domino


Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping, brother john?


Dove nested towers the hour was
Strike the street quicksilver moon

Carriage across the fog
Two-step to lamp lights cellar tune
The laughs come hard in auld lang syne


The glass was raised, the fired rose
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting


While at port adieu or die


A choke of grief hard hardened i
Beyond belief a broken man too tough to cry


Surf's up
Aboard a tidal wave
Come about hard and join

The young and often spring you gave
I heard the word
Wonderful thing

A children's song

Child, child, child, child, child

A child is the father of the man
Child, child, child, child, child
A child is the father of the man

A children's song
Have you listened as they played
Their song is love

And the children know the way
That's why the child is the father to the man
Child, child, child, child, child

Child, child, child, child, child
Na na na na na na na na
Child, child, child, child, child

That's why the child is the father to the man
Child, child, child, child, child