An Eclectic Circus

And if I don’t say a word
You’ll know that it’s the truth

Peter Perrett, 1978

	Table of Contents
	Autumn 1979
1	Oh, you pretty things	Read
2	The children of the summer’s end	Read
3	The missionary mystic of peace/love	Read
4	The days of fate were strong for you; danced you far from me	Read
5	I’m trying hard to fit among your scheme of things	Read
6	Just a mortal with the potential of a superman	Read
7	Laying on electric dreams	Read
8	When I Live my dream	Read
9	Kings of Oblivion	Read
10	I always wanted new surroundings	Read
11	In my life I’ve never stopped to worry about a thing	Read
12	Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be	Read
13	When you climb to the top of the mountain look out over the sea	Read
14	Wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone	Read
15	The sparrow sings dawn chorus for someone else to hear	Read
16	The sky will paint an overture and trees will play the rhythm	Read
	Spring 1980
17	She’s a queen and such are queens	Read
18	All of the strange things circulating round	Read
19	Look out you rock ‘n rollers	Read
20	A million dead-end streets	Read
21	He took it all too far, but, boy, could he play	Read
22	And we walked back to the road, unchained	Read
23	Take a chance with a couple of kooks	Read
24	Let all the children boogie	Read
25	Fly it from the toppest top of all the tops	Read
26	We’re nobody’s children at all, after all	Read
27	The speaker was an angel. He coughed and shook his crumpled wings	Read
28	Don’t think you knew you were in this song	Read
	Summer 1980
29	The slogan that hovers between the headstone and her eyes	Read
30	There’s a brand new dance but I don’t know its name	Read
31	I watch the ripples change their size	Read
32	In a corner of the morning in the past	Read
33	Wish, and the thunder clouds will vanish. Wish, and the storm will fade away	Read
34	For my love is like the wind. And wild is the wind	Read
35	She’s often inclined to borrow somebody’s dreams ’til tomorrow	Read
36	Like a Polish wanderer, I travel ever onwards to your land	Read
37	You’ll lose your mind and play. Free games for May	Read
38	As the boulders smashed down from the mountain’s hand	Read
39	Rest your head and read a treasured dream	Read
40	I searched for form and land. For years and years I roamed	Read
41	Wish again, and you will stand before me	Read
42	Look at that sky, life’s begun. Nights are warm and the days are young	Read
43	You love bands when they’re playing hard	Read
44	Chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature	Read
45	He’s waiting in the wings; he speaks of senseless things; his script is you and me, boy	Read
46	When the kids had killed the man, I had to break up the band	Read
	Autumn 1980
47	Secret secret, never seen	Read
48	Boys stood upon their chairs to make their point of view	Read
49	You walked into my life out of my dreams	Read
	Summer 2005
50	Oh, to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon	Read
	Acknowledgements & Credits	Read