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