The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome mannered baton
A blind class aristocracy
Back through the op'ra glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
Columnated ruins domino
Canvass the town and brush the backdrop
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 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 lamplight 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
I don't have a clue what most of this means, but I get a beautiful surrealistic movie in my head every time I listen to these lyrics. Van Dyke Parks is such a genius.