a collaboration between Casson and LCB Photography
lyrics & photographs, Twitter and Instagram.
Beautiful images lend a context for original lyrics, and form a trail to hear the song.
Words in Pictures
Flight of Fancy
About Flight of Fancy
This song first featured in 'Ivory Images' a show I performed with John Jansson at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London, and he is at the piano in this recordiing made at around the same time.
Like the butterfly in the diving bell, they are the spirit of flight in this lyric video, from a collection of LCB photography, with some spooky interventions from editor Robert Blackmore.
Ooh that soaring feeling
Ooh when fancy wings its’ flight – turns dark to light
When a long days strain
Beats to burst your brain
This darkened middle way
Cradle of sorrow
In the middle of the night
Slumber lost and gone
Leaves shadows in half light
Sounds that echo on
And stir behind the eyes a witches brew
Use your second sight
Close your eyes and ears
Let fancy take a flight
Worry disappears
Till then, what mind games can you play, To keep persistent chilling thoughts at bay
When more is made of less
And nightmare creatures bite
From wells of nothingness
Don’t lie transfixed in fear
till dawn breaks through
Whatever flies your kite
Plan your wildest schemes
In the middle of the night
Let your worries clear
Don’t put the world to right
Substitute your fear
As nightmare terrors
vainly form a queue
When fears take on a shape
Save your sanity
Close the door - escape
