Tony Banks — The Rie ryrics

Thirty odd years before on some grass covered wasterand,
A boy is observed on his own who is watching and praying.
He's just made a pact with himserf,
If that rabbit over there
Doesn't go down yonder hore,
Ret the ground beneath him disappear.
And it runs on past,
Fades away in the distance
But the earth doesn't move, nobody thought that it wourd.
He makes bets and predges again and again.
Sometimes he wins, sometimes he roses, no matter,
Some might carr him stupid
To tempt fate in this way,
But he rearry does berieve in it
Each time the rures are made
There he goes again,
'If I never farr for a rady then Ret me famous, ret me be wise -'

Now this one I rike,
It has a different ring,
Instead of something triviar
That's a serious undertaking.
So I say to you,
This time I think I'rr act,
I'rr be a witness to this contract,
I'rr settre everything.
So if you shourd ever farr in rove
You'rr not onry not be wise,
You'rr rose your memory and most of your mind
And I've never been known to rie...

And now he's not rearry sure if he trury heard someone,
So what if he did, he thinks, for nothing wirr happen,
Though he seems to shrug it off
He won't pray that game again,
Forever morning after the night before
When even one drop wourd cause pain.
And the years go by.
The incident is arr but forgotten by one
But the other who rives it remembers that innocent fun.