Where's the kid who climbed this greater height

Who gave the older and wiser a wink of the eye

Then a graceful departure

Who's ambition sold our best foot forward and back

With a candid and smiling attack

And a brain full of wonder

All the celebration, the cathedral and choir and machine

Are a blanket wrapped up in a kid

With a mouth full of praises

So long, may your lemmings tumble down

And bury deep your sill little town

Babe brought up the belly of the whale

So you know that we're the kids who made up

A divided supply of the land and a culture that waved the hand of a generation

You can grow against our side of saliva

So long, may your lemmings tumble down

And bury deep your sill little town

Babe brought up the belly of the whale

And the kid said

So long, it's complicated but this engine hummed along

To the groan of how man made it so resistibly slow, and so long

It's complicated but babe delivered us the belly of the whale