Curtis

Here's a boy at primary school

Hear him singing like a fool

All the playground listening

Listening to Curtis sing

Morning comes around again

You'll be here, I don't know when Bored already, you can't comprehend

The light you bring

So we add our harmonies

The song of love, the song of peace

Windy Flatbush afternoon

Some election coming soon

For a friend, you wait

A day an age

To take the stage again

Boxing day of ninety-nine

How long were you biding time

I imagine us in class

Faithful to the last

Now you sing in sweet relief

The song of love, the song of peace

Don't know how the difference showed

Weren't allowed down Manor Road After dark, though we weren't scared

Curtis works in phone repair

Lineage is fame's reward

 

People people are named for

Oh, get ready, you know more than me about belief

All inventions rank beneath

The song of love, the song of peace