Suit Of Lights Words by Clive James, music by Pete Atkin What did I see? I saw wonders The water was wine and the battlements reeled I saw brittle prisms crack up in the rain And the hail in the grain Was a giant window broken in the field How did I feel? Like a hero The bread that I threw on the water came home I cashed in my chips and I reaped what I sowed The show was on the road And all the roads were rolling into Rome What did I hear? I heard secrets The unwritten codewords of love and command When a flower said Go the whole bunch opened slowly And in the fall of snow The first flakes talked the others down to land When did I know? From the outset I knew from the onset, the jump, and the gun A thousand prows kissed the water As though she was somebody's daughter And a rainbow spun out of the crumbling sun How did I lose? By a lightyear A long chalk, an epoch, an era, an age And the birds slowed down and stopped over the park And the children grew older The cold weather colder And from ankle to shoulder My suit of lights went dark