I took a trip down to look at the fair
When I arrived I found nobody there
It seemed I was all alone
Must be that they've all gone home
Chorus:
A trip to the fair but nobody was there
A trip to the fair but nobody was
there
Voices of yesterday make not a sound
Even the roundabout stopped going
round
I wonder just what it means
Is everything how it seems?
Chorus
A creak as the dodgems came onto the scene
Wheels began turning I started
to scream
A carousel swung around
My head spun and hit the ground
Chorus
I close my eyes to disguise the fear from inside
Trembling within my own
mind I find no place to hide
Stars of tomorrow shine through the grey mist
that has gone
I wish that this trip to the fair had never begun
Suddenly thousands of faces I see
Everyone seemed to be staring at me
Clowns laughed in the penny arcade
What was this game my mind played?
I took a trip down to look at the fair
When I arrived I found nobody there
It seemed I was all alone
Must be that they've all gone home
A trip to the fair but nobody was there, but nobody was there
A trip to the
fair but nobody was there, but nobody was there
While in the streets of all our fears
They reign supreme as orders go
They are the last to have their say
And last to know it doesn't matter how
you try
It doesn't matter what you say
They always watch with hollow
eyes
To put you down they always find a way to criticise
Chorus I:
The vultures fly high
They circle over us all
The vultures fly high
I'll take your hand if you fall
All those who sheltered in their smile
Are scattered here from yesterday
And if the weak are left behind
They have to pay and though you haven't
much to give
You know they take it, yours and mine
Sometimes it looks
as though we lose
But then in time the finger points at them
The next
in line
Repeat Chorus I
[Instrumental break]
Chorus II:
The vultures fly high
They circle over us all
The lonely sigh
I'll take your hand if you fall
Repeat Chorus II twice
Tried to take it all away
Learn her freedom just inside a day
And find
her soul
To find their fears allayed
Tried to make her love their own
They took her love they left her there
They gave her nothing back
That she would want to own
Gold and silver rings and stones
Dances slowly of the moon
No-one else
can know
She stands alone
Sleeping dreams will reach for her
She cannot say the words they need
She knows she's alone
And she is free
Chorus:
Ocean gypsy of the moon
The sun has made a thousand nights
For you to
hold
Ocean gypsy where are you
The shadows followed by the stars
Have turned to gold, turned to gold
Then she met a hollow soul
Filled him with her light
And was consoled
she was the moon
And he, the sun was gold
Eyes were blinded with his light
The sun she gave
Reflected back the
night
The moon was waning almost out of sight
Softly ocean gypsy calls
Silence holds the stars awhile
They smile
sadly
For her where she falls
Just the time before the dawn
The sea is hushed
The ocean calls her
Day has taken her and now she's gone
Chorus
No-one noticed when she died
Ocean gypsy shackled to the tide
The
ebbing waves were turning
Spreading wide
Something gone within her eyes
Her fingers lifeless stroke the sand
Her battered soul was lost
She was abandoned
Silken threads like wings still shine
Winds take pleasure still make
patterns
In her lovely hair
So dark and fine
Stands on high beneath the seas
Cries no more
Her tears have dried
Oceans weep for her the ocean sighs
Chorus
Sultan king cruel majesty
Ordered that his women die
A single night
this for all his wives
Takes his pleasure then their lives
And so for many days with the dawn
The sultan had his way
Wives were
put to death
His name on their dying breath
Then one day as the evening came
Sultan sends for him a wife
Choose
her well charms I wish to see
Bring her, send her in to me
Then came Scheherazade to his side
And her beauty shone
Like a flower
grown
Gentle as he'd ever known
Scheherazade bewitched him
With songs of jewelled keys
Princes and of
heroes
And eastern fantasies
Told him tales of sultans
And talismans and rings
A thousand and one
nights she sang
To entertain her king
She sings, Scheherazade,
Scheherazade, etc
"The Young Prince And The Young Princess As Told By Scheherazade"
And you would cause the sun to see your light
And then be shamed
You
cover darkness with a thousand secret flames
With your love, oh my love, oh
my love, my love
And I would cause the winds to blow a hundred different
days
And bring the perfumes of the gardens of the ways
Of your love,
oh my love, oh my love, my love
Crystal and the clay, nights and the days
All on the prince's seal
Eagle of the sky, lion of the earth
This is what the seal is worth, what
the seal is worth
Holds all of the dreams of a man
Tapestries, wishes
of man, pictures and visions of man
The spirit of the soul of the man
And he would vow to love her for the rest of all his days
Sheherazade this day is yours
The bearers of your gifts now all around you
stand
The finest silk made in the land
Is waiting for your choice
It shimmers at your hand
Sheherazade your life is one
You have today
the sultan's love
The people watch you step into the sun
Stalls and
bars of every kind
Food piled high on woven leaves for all to eat
Drums and flutes at every turn
The music winding, twisting through the
crowded streets
Caravans from far away bring people laughing
People
come to see the sultan in Baghdad today
Scheherazade her name is known
Her tale is told
The sultan let her
life be spared
The festival begins this day
To celebrate her fame
The people sing her praise
Stories sung, the crowds are dancing
To the
music and the entertainment all the voices sing
The people call to see the
king
The sultan smiles
His story just begun
The sultan and
Sheherazade are one
Scheherazade, Scheherazade
She told him tales of sultans and talismans and rings
A thousand and one
nights she sang to entertain her king
She sings, Scheherazade, Sheherazade,
Scheherazade, etc.
