Little by Little

The winds caress the mountain top And every day it rains And slowly, imperceptibly, each day a thousand grains Are taken from that solid rock, clandestine souvenirs And slow, so no one notices, the mountain disappears It's gone before the world awakes and little by little is all it takes The frog can be forgiven if a little ill at ease For certainly his trust has been eroded by degrees It may be disagreeable, indeed, we may recoil How easily that little frog is brought up to the boil He never realised the stakes, and little by little is all it takes They say that Adolph Hitler once was heard to volunteer No man ever notices his freedoms disappear Not if they are taken in a thousand tiny shards We counter his anxieties, the rest, he disregards But then he can't apply the brakes, and little by little is all it takes I'm joyful 50 times a day to star on the TV And reassured my mobile phone is keeping track of me And by the great benevolence of those whom we anoint Still, Hitler and the frog have made a very valid point So stay alert for Heaven's sakes, for little by little is all it takes So stay alert, for heaven's sakes for little by little is all it takes