And there were mermaids --weren't there?-- Sweet silver mermaids All through that grey Trafalgar Square Such silver mermaids They were young, and they were fair They brushed their bronze and dusky hair And whispered, "Come, Sad Stephen, come, and play here" "You will love, you will be loved You will grow up, and do so much You will be strong, you be sung By all the mermaids. Silver mermaids..." And once they'd sung their satin song They beckoned to me from the fog -- They spread their arms and lifted Pale-portraid faces... I was taken To their coral-cavern halls, To rooms with oyster shells for walls, To sandy nooks, and pearly book, and ivory dolls... In ivory stalls, in ivory stalls... And there were mermaids --weren't there?-- Swet silver mermaids All through that wan, forgotten square, Silver mermaids They were young, and they were fair They brushed their bronze and dusky hair And whispered, "Come, Sad Stephen, come" And I was taken Was I wrong? Should I have run? I wanted all, I wanted young And portrait faces... I was taken Did I love? I didn't care Did I grow up? Well unaware And I was strong? And I was sung? How do I haunt Trafalgar fog And find I want so much, still want -- And no more mermaids No more mermaids...