Lyrics: Harlequin Album: Nursery Cryme Artist: Genesis   Came the night a mist dissolved the trees And in the broken light colours fly, fading by. Pale and cold as figures fill the glade Grey is the web they spin, on…

Lyrics: Harold The Barrel Album: Nursery Cryme Artist: Genesis   News: A well-known bognor restaurant-owner disappeared Early this morning. Last seen in a mouse-brown overcoat, Suitably camouflaged, They saw him catch a train. Man-in-the-street: "father of three its disgusting" "such…

Lyrics: The Return Of The Giant Hogweed Album: Nursery Cryme Artist: Genesis   Turn and run! Nothing can stop them, Around every river and canal their power is growing. Stamp them out! We must destroy them, They infiltrate each city…

Lyrics: For Absent Friends Album: Nursery Cryme Artist: Genesis   Sunday at six when they close both the gates A widowed pair, Still sitting there, Wonder if they’re late for church And it’s cold, so they fasten their coats And…

Lyrics: The Fountain Of Salmacis Album: Nursery Cryme Artist: Genesis   Hermaphrodite: a flower containing both male and female organs; a person or animal of both sexes. The child hermaphroditus was the son of hermes and aphrodite, the result of…

Lyrics: Seven Stones Album: Nursery Cryme Artist: Genesis   I heard the old man tell his tale: Tinker, alone within a storm, And losing hope he clears the leaves beneath a tree, Seven stones Lay on the ground. Within the…