London Town - C'mon Down

Words and music by Roger Taylor

Spoken voice - excerpt from LONDON FANTASY by Mervyn Peake:

But for the fact that the eye can cease to respond, the brain to absorb,
the heart to miss a beat, the spirit to launch itself of the hazard of
speculation, then surely in the weird creatures that make up this dark hive
called London (or for that matter the world), every lie spread before us
(every day such a scene!) supports the brains of madness and the delirium
of heads and frames and hands - a cavalcade hardly to be suffered from the
very endlessness of its invented fantasy...

C'mon Down!

Many miracles float by in the hundred lights. The eyes and constellations
swarm through London. Sight becomes cluttered. There is no end to it,
beneath the electric blare - in fog and downpour and sunlight and
firelight, in wind, at sunrise or at dusk, there is no end...

We got it down, we got it down
We got it down, in London Town

Dig this and dig that
Dig the thin and dig the fat
Dig the boys and dig the girls
Dig the straights and dig the curls
Dig the future dig the past
Dig the audience and cast
Dig the sights dig the sounds
Yeah dig this London town
C'mon down
To London Town

C'mon down to London Town

Electric light surrounding me
Feel the electricity
Feelin' up, gettin' higher
Feed on my electric fire
If you wanna get up, you gotta go down
Get your fix on London Town
So c'mon down, to London Tawn
C'mon down
To London town
C'mon down to London Town
C'mon down to London Town
C'mon down