Al Stewart - Samuel How You've Changed

Most of the better bred woollen toys have gone to bed


And the teddy bear is a-sleeping in the cupboard


And the wooden soldiers all and the rubber bouncing ball


Are list'ning to the tales of mother Hubbard


But the fairy lights are dark on the Christmas tree as restlessly


I stand here forgotten and alone


I've been too long on the floor, I can't stay here any more


So Jenny won't you please take me home.





Oh the statues that I see are made out of blackest ivory


But I pass them by never guessing of their meaning


And a million voices cry as I walk across the sky


Though it's restless here why it's only in-betweening


For the journey that I'm on is incomplete so to my feet


I must rise now and travel on alone


Ah, but if you've got some time to spend in between now and the end


Oh Jenny won't you please take me home.





Now almost every word that I've said that you have heard


Hides another thought left unspoken


And if I may not reach it through the gutter of my speech


Then it best be left unsaid than lie unbroken


And if you wish to see then from time to time look in my eyes


Oh the gold is not far beneath the stone


Mmm if that will not say it doesn't matter anyway


Jenny won't you please take me home.