You can read right through a book of matches

But that won't make you smart

You can laugh in the face of watches

But time will only break your heart



Kings reign beneath umbrellas

Hide pennies down in cellars

And money pours down and yet

No everyone gets soaking wet



When bores and bullies conspire

To stamp out your spark

Listen for...

A Voice In The Dark



Not a moment too soon as we blue the moon

And a wolf begins to howl in tune

I announced for all mankind

A boon

Stand aside you big baboon

Now I'm the a prize invention

You're the image of yourself

Forget your cares

And disapproving stares

I'm not here to try to jump your borders

Just ask your nieces and daughters



I'm flat as sole, I'm happy as a clam

But they don't know the kind of man I am

Little fish swimming in a jealous shoal

Now my net is overflowing

And I suddenly seem to be all seeing and all knowing

I've got something right there

They you need to hear

But have no fear

Lend a hand

Lend an ear

If your rent-money is in arrears



We'll be striking up a symphony bandstand

Long of hair and loose of tooth

There'll be pirouettes and startling handstands

And who but acrobats know how to tell the truth

When is said that then redundant

They gallivant in peg-leg pants

I'll be your servant

You'll be my pal

I'll be ever faithful you know I shall

There's no fool like an old fool

Who blames it all upon his youth

When times are tough and you find you're down

Without a star to wish upon

Just listen for...

A Voice In The Dark



I was striking through a box of matches

Hoping that one would spark

I heard somebody calling to me

A voice in the dark

A sound both wild and gentle

Daring and confidential

I thought there was music playing

But it was all and only talk

When liars and bullies conspire to stamp out spark

Fill up that empty space in your heart

Listen up, when the herald says, "Hark"

Believe in just a voice in the dark...