Overture (The Mikado)

Overture

Patrick Wolf

It's wonderful

What a smile can hide

If the teeth shine right

And it's nice and wide

So magical

All you can keep inside

If you bury it deep

No-one can find a thing

No

Well come on now

Open wide

Open up now

Don't you think it's time?

To look back at that boy on his way to school

Such a heavy heart

Such a heavy jewel

Hiding something that one day he'll sell

But now if no one shows

Then no one tells a thing

No?

Well come on now open wide

Open up now

Don't you think it's time?

Now after all these years

You are at last opening

Was it worth all that war just to win?

And so caught up in speed of the days

And your sin

Don't forget how the story begins

Don't forget

Now i'm seeing all your lovers and your enemies

Been turning their keys

So full of need

All trying to seize that jewel you keep

"What makes it shine?

What makes it mine?"

Well I don't care

Just come on now

Open wide

Open up now

Theres so much love for you'll find

Now what will you find?

Now after all these years

You are at last opening

Was it worth all that war just to win?

Well if it was

Then come on take me back

To where it begins

Come on take me back

To where it begins

Come on take me back

To where it begins

Come on

Open wide

And let some light in...