(w & m by Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks)
A diamond necklace played the pawn,
Hand in hand some drummed along
To a handsome man and baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the opera glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Colonnaded ruins domino
Canvas the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping?
Hung velvet overtaking me,
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
The music hall is a costly bow
The music all is lost for now
To a muted trumpeter’s swan
Colonnaded ruins domino
Canvas the town and brush the backdrop
Are you sleeping Brother John?
Dove nested towers the hour was strike the street quick sil’vry moon
Carriage across the fog twostep to lamplight 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-a-dieu or die
A choke of grief heart hardened I beyond belief,a broken man,too tough to cry
Surf’s up,Mm mm mm mm mm mm,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