I recall when I was small   How I spent my days alone   The busy world was not for me   So I went and found my own   I would climb the garden wall   With a candle in my hand   I'd hide inside a hall of rock and sand      On the stone an ancient hand   In a faded yellow-green   Made alive a worldly wonder   Often told but never seen   Now and ever bound to labor   On the sea and in the sky   Every man and beast appeared   A friend as real as I      Chorus:   Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall   When there wasn't even any Hollywood   They heard the call   And they wrote it on the wall   For you and me and we understood      Can it be this sad design   Could be the very same   A wooly man without a face   And a beast without a name   Nothin' here but history   Can you see what has been done   Memory rush over me   Now I step into the sun      Chorus