The path you tread is narrow
And the drop is sheer and very high
The ravens all are watching
From a vantage point near by
Apprehension creeping
Like a tube train up your spine
Will the tight rope reach the end ?
Will the final couplet rhyme ?
And it's high time,Cymbaline
It's high time,Cymbaline
Please wake me
A butterfly with broken wings
Is falling by your side
The ravens all are closing in
There's nowhere you can hide
Your manager and agent
Are both busy on the phone
Selling coloured photographs
To magazines back home
And it's high time, Cymbaline
It's high time, Cymbaline
Please wake me
The lines converging where you stand
They must have moved the picture plane
The leaves are heavy'round your feet
You hear the thunder of the train
Suddenly it strikes you
That they're moving into range
And Doctor Strange is always changing size
And it's high time,Cymbaline
It's high time,Cymbaline
Please wake me
il y a 2 version: la version du film et de l'album, celle la est la version de l'albulm.
En 1969 notamment, cette pièce est intégrée, dans une version atteignant parfois 20 minutes, dans la suite conceptuelle The Man and the Journey sous le titre Nightmare. ( Wikepédia :P )
La chanson fait référence à Doctor Strange, un célèbre héro des B.D. Comics américaines de l'époque.