A diamond necklace played the pawn. 
Hand in hand, some drummed along
To a handsome mannered baton. 

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

Columnated ruins domino!
Canvas the town and brush the back-drop. 
Are you sleeping? 

Hung velvet over taking me. 
Dim chandelier awaken me. 
To a song dissolved in the dawn. 

The music hall, a costly bow. 
The must all is lost for now, 
To a muted trumpeter swan. 

Columnated ruins domino!

Canvas the town and brush the back-drop. 
Are you sleeping? Brother John? 

Dove nested towers,
The hour was strike the street, quicksilver moon. 

Carriage across the fog-two-step to
Lampight cellar tune. 

The laughs come hard
In Auld Lang Syne. 

The glass was raised, the fired-roast. 
The fullness of the wine. 
A dim last toasting. 
While at Port, adieu or die. 

A choke of grief, heart-hardened eye, 
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.
A children's song, have you listened as they play? 
Their song is love and the children know the way.