Shadows scheme and shadows contemplate How they're gonna cover up their fate But they're no match for this boy of nine And the lens through which he magnifies their lives Through an open crittall window frame Playing telescope moonlight games A faceless empty suited man he spies The apple cheeked girl and the cut glass wives Up above on the rooftops Swirling round Horizontal and vertical He sweeps the sky Shining the light of truth into the void Telescope moonlight boy All the shapes they made obscured the truth So, he sought to get a better view The horizon fell behind the town Lost behind streets, he scaled down, down, down The closer that he got the less he saw And the calm mechanical small talk Killed his senses and enforced the fear That he'd grow up never knowing what was real Up above on the rooftops Swirling round Horizontal and vertical He hears them sigh... "Don't go playing with that you know it's not a toy" La la la la Up on the rooftops Stars collide Energy is his power He consumes the night In through an aperture so wide Stars become brighter when they're magnified Shining the light of truth into the void Telescope moonlight boy Telescope moonlight boy Telescope moonlight boy