And brush the backdrop
To a handsome man and baton
(Michael, Michael)
Their song is love

A choke of grief hard hardened I
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
The laughs come hard in auld lang syne
The young and often spring you gave
And the children know the way
I heard the word
(A child is the father of man)
Come about hard and join
And the children know the way
A child
To cry
(A child is the father of man)
Back through the opera glass you see
Columnated ruins Domino
Carriage across the fog
The dim last toastin'
(Child, child, the child)
The pit and the pendulum drawn
(Child, child, the child)
(Child, child, the child, child)
Are you sleepin'?
(Child, child, the child)
(A child is the father of man)
(Child, child, the child)

(A child is the father of man)
Are you sleepin', Brother John?
(Child, child, the child)
(A child is the father of man)
A broken man too tough

The glass was raised, the fired rose
(Michael, Michael)
Dim chandelier awaken me
Dove nested towers the hour was
A childrens song
Beyond belief
Canvass the town
Aboard a tidal wave
Surf's up

Two step to lamp lights cellar tune
A childrens song
And brush the backdrop
Have you listened as they played
While at port a do or die
(Michael, Michael)
A blind class aristocracy
(A child is the father of man)

The music hall a costly bow
The children say
(A child is the father of man)
Hung velvet overtaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
(A child is the father of man)
(Child, child, the child)

To a muted trumpeter swan
Canvass the town

Have you listened as they played
(Michael, Michael)
Columnated ruins Domino
(Child, child, the child)
Their song is love
Wonderful thing
The music all is lost for now
(That's why the child is the father to the man)
Strike the street quicksilver moon

The fullness of the wine