[Dawn Tableau]
Carriage bells fade beneath a leaden sky
The scarecrow tips its battered hat nearby
Slippers sink in sodden garden mud
A child’s hat floats out on creaky flood

[Awakening]
Muffled thunder scraping up the lane
A dozing fencepost startles at the rain
Yesterday’s papers flutter at my feet
As Sunday’s ghosts begin to sound retreat

[Curtain Rises]
Distant horns swell through the blackened weeds
Jackdaw feathers caught upon the reeds
A suitcase weeps beneath the paling sign
Brambles scratch their names into the twine

[Foreword]
Idle boots collect the puddle’s skin
A penny spins the tales I’m tangled in
Broken windows blinking in the field
Gutters gathering truths that never yield

[Opening Scene]
Fog drapes heavy over leaning stone
Rusty gates sigh secrets not their own
Moonlit bottles rolling down the lane
Ashen cats rehearse a masked refrain

[Pre-Prologue]
Clouds parade in borrowed hats of brass
A tired wheel sketches on the glass
Shadows trade old buttons for a tune
Sunday shoes slip silent past the moon

[Prologue]
Morning moans behind the broken gate
A rubber ball rolls out in search of fate
The milkman shouts at shadows in his cart
And kitchen clocks wake up too late to start

[Intro Verse]
Mist curls round the picket fence like thread
A faded blueprint stamped across my head
Tin can soldiers muddle up the street
While paperboys forget whose hands they meet

[Verse 1]
Monday brought the circus to my street
A marching band of ghosts without their feet
The garden gnomes are gathering to scheme
A hatless man is shouting from a dream

[Pre-Chorus]
The window’s grown a silent nose
It listens through the tea-stained day
If order’s just a crumpled pose
I’ll let the roads lead away

[Chorus]
I walk upon the crooked sighs
Where shadows double in my mind
Fences laugh at passing eyes
And everyone’s pretending not to mind

[Post-Chorus]
La la la, oh la la la
La la la, oh la la la

[Verse 2]
Yesterday the clocks forgot to ring
Mrs. Stanley’s painting on the wall could sing
I tip my hat to the statues in the hall
They chase me down the ever-shrinking hall

[Pre-Chorus]
They say I should stay inside
But the curtains swallow my day
If sanity's an old disguise
I’ll let the world melt away

[Chorus]
I walk upon the crooked sighs
Where shadows double in my mind
Fences laugh at passing eyes
And everyone’s pretending not to mind

[Post-Chorus]
La la la, oh la la la
La la la, oh la la la

[Bridge]
There’s paper moons strung up above my bed
A soldier’s cap is where I rest my head
The spiders tell me secrets of the floor
Their little boots are marching out the door

[Pre-Chorus]
The wallpaper’s begun to breathe
It hums till morning’s pale parade
If logic’s just a handkerchief
I think I’ll let it fade

[Chorus]
I walk upon the crooked sighs
Where shadows double in my mind
Fences laugh at passing eyes
And everyone’s pretending not to mind

[Post-Chorus]
La la la, oh la la la
La la la, oh la la la
La la la, oh la la la
La la la, oh la la la

