Lyrics

We see posters on your walls but the labels in the book are reading up on you
and all the things that you do (Reading up on you)
Oh No! Your face is in the shadows, the Lady's in the lake and all the World is blue
from that things that you do (All the things you do)

Picking up the phone, I feel I'm all alone
Is there anybody out there?
Calling down the line, screaming down the line
Is there anybody out there?

Inside, moving just like clockwork
Around and round and searching for the key, to set us free (Searching for a key)
Outside, Simon kills the Pieman, Mother Goose is lying and London Bridge is for sale
here comes the twist in the tale (All good stories fail)

Picking up the phone, I feel I'm all alone
Is there anybody out there?
Calling down the line, screaming down the line
Is there anybody out there?

Ancient stories, lost in Time
Use their reason to fix the rhyme
And we have been here, filed away
Watching as your moments tick away

Picking up the phone, I feel I'm all alone
Is there anybody out there?
Calling down the line, screaming down the line
Is there anybody out there?

Notes
Probably the most difficult theme to put into words.
Fairy Tales have always been a moral back bone to Society, they are a simple guide to Good and Evil, Right and Wrong. In the modern age of Computers, endless cartoons and low thresholds of attention/patience...we have (perhaps) turned our backs on them.
This song is sung from the perspective of the Narrative or Fairy Story Characters, who (and here we leap logic) through the marvels of the modern Internet etc. can actually get a way out/ a view of the Real World and feel able to comment on it.
They are not happy at what they see!

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