Sing a song of sadness, sing a song of rage
The closing of a lifetime, the passing of an age
He told us gentle stories, gave us friends
Now Peter Firmin's dead, and childhood ends.
On screens across the nation another daybreak dawns
A pixel perfect sunrise, the imagination yawns
The mind's eye borrows someone else's lens
When Peter Firmin's dead and childhood ends.
Uncertainly I see
Through the mists of memory
Days filled with sunshine and with laughter
And the memories survive
Of a world that kept alive
The hope of a happy ever after
A world not on the brink of disaster.
All those little vessels to fill with discontent
To keep the carbon pumping, to get the money spent
Don't ever take those ad men for your friends
When Peter Firmin's dead and childhood ends.
No time for looking backwards we must be moving on
The closest of companions now forever gone
No funeral for imaginary friends
If Peter Firmin's dead and childhood ends.
Uncertainly I see
Through the mists of memory
Days filled with sunshine and with laughter
And the memories survive
Of a world that kept alive
The hope of a happy ever after
A world not on the brink of disaster.
Sing a song of sadness, sing a song of rage
The closing of a lifetime, the passing of an age
He told us gentle stories, gave us friends
Now Peter Firmin's dead, and childhood ends
Now Peter Firmin's dead, and childhood ends
Now Peter Firmin's dead, and childhood ends.