Samuel, Oh How You've Changed!

Most of the better bred woollen toys have gone to bed

And the teddy bear is a-sleeping in the cupboard

And the wooden soldiers all and the rubber bouncing ball

Are list'ning to the tales of mother Hubbard

But the fairy lights are dark on the Christmas tree as restlessly

I stand here forgotten and alone

I've been too long on the floor I can't stay here any more

So Jenny won't you please take me home

Oh the statues that I see are made out of blackest ivory

But I pass them by never guessing of their meaning

And a million voices cry as I walk across the sky

Though it's restless here why it's only in-betweening

For the journey that I'm on is incomplete so to my feet

I must rise now and travel on alone

Ah but if you've got some time to spend in between now and the end

Oh Jenny won't you please take me home

Now almost every word that I've said that you have heard

Hides another thought left unspoken

And if I may not reach it through the gutter of my speech

Then it best be left unsaid than lie unbroken

And if you wish to see then from time to time look in my eyes

Oh the gold is not far beneath the stone

Mmm if that will not say it doesn't matter anyway

Jenny won't you please take me home