Fable of the Wings-Brass Monkey/John Kirkpatrick/Martin Carthy

[ti:Fable Of The Wings] [ar:Brass Monkey] [al:The Complete Brass Monkey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fable Of The Wings - Brass Monkey/Martin Carthy/John Kirkpatrick [00:46.79]He wore a suit of morning grey [00:50.09]No thought did he betray [00:52.85]As he moved inside with the evening tide [00:55.59]At the end of his working day [00:58.97]Off the train and down the road [01:02.49]Stepping through the door [01:05.29]Sees his wife standing [01:07.43]Staring across the floor [01:11.73]She said a stranger came today [01:14.48] [01:15.10]He opened a silver tray [01:17.51] [01:18.08]He had all sorts of pills that could cure all ills [01:20.86]Said I'd see things a different way [01:24.83] [01:26.13]Oh what a heart that pounds [01:29.10]And oh what limbs that are weak [01:31.36] [01:32.09]Voices come from so far away [01:34.88]I hardly hear you when you speak [01:39.29] [01:50.36]At night she dreamed strange things [01:53.32]Her thoughts ran round in rings [01:56.11]'Til to the dawn sky she gave a cry [01:58.95]To find that she had grown wings [02:03.27] [02:04.00]See her gaze into the mirror [02:07.04]See her gazing through the gloom [02:10.89] [02:11.47]As she stretched and she watched this great wonder [02:14.87]Filling her tiny room [02:18.09] [02:19.53]She rose from off her bed [02:22.71]Stretched her wings above her head [02:25.24] [02:26.06]And then with the shame she cried out in vain [02:29.34]Oh I wish that I was dead [02:32.71] [02:33.92]Whatever will the neighbours say [02:36.33] [02:37.23]Whatever gossip will they all preach [02:39.78] [02:40.44]Whatever will my children all think of me [02:43.04]When they see that I'm a freak [02:48.10] [03:08.81]And now there comes the day [03:11.64]For the last act of the play [03:14.44] [03:15.01]You can see the surprise in the surgeon's eyes [03:18.32]At the task that before him lay [03:22.05] [03:23.30]From deep behind the mask he stared [03:26.30]And from deep down there came a sigh [03:29.40]As he wondered what it must be like [03:32.72]To have the power to fly [03:37.43] [04:00.11]He wore a suit of morning grey [04:03.51]No thought did he betray [04:06.31]As he moved inside with the morning tide [04:09.25]At the end of his working day [04:13.06] [04:14.14]But those of us who are like to trip [04:17.20]Those who are like to fall [04:20.03]Find however high are the walls we build [04:23.20]We find no shelter at all