I recall when I was small 

How I spent my days alone 

The busy world was not for me 

So I went and found my own 

I would climb the garden wall 

With a candle in my hand 

I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand 

On the stone an ancient hand 

In a faded yellow-green 

Made alive a worldly wonder 

Often told but never seen 

Now and ever bound to labor 

On the sea and in the sky 

Every man and beast appeared 

A friend as real as I 



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Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall 

When there wasn't even any Hollywood 

They heard the call 

And they wrote it on the wall 

For you and me we understood 



Can it be this sad design 

Could be the very same 

A wooly man without a face 

And a beast without a name 

Nothin' here but history 

Can you see what has been done 

Memory rush over me 

Now I step into the sun 



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