Surf's Up

A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand, some drummed along, oh
To a handsome mannered baton
(Bygone, bygone)

A blind class aristocracy
Back through the op'ra glass you see
The pit and the pendulum drawn
(Bygone, bygone)

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

Hung velvet overtaken me
Dim chandelier awaken me
To a song dissolved in the dawn
(Bygone, bygone)

The music hall, a costly bow
The music, all is lost for now
To a muted trumpeter swan
(Bygone, bygone)

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 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, adieu 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

Child, child, child, the child
Father of the man (father of the man)
Child, child, child, the child
Father of the man (father of the man)

A children's song
Have you listened as they play?
Their song is love
And the children know the way

That's why the child, child, the child, child
Father of the man (father of the man)
Child, child, the child
Father of the man (father of the man)
That's why the child, child, the child, child
Father of the man (father of the man)
Child, child, the child
Father of the man (father of the man)