Fantastical Dash (West End Girls Suite)

Featured art by Mario Sánchez Nevado

Listen to Fantastical Dash by Richard Charles Stevens (West End Girls Suite)

Listen to West End Girls by Pet Shop Girls

I shall pocket you the moon
Pocket you the moon
.
Race you to the sunset
And while daylight isn’t done yet
I shall pocket you the moon
Then build a rocket ship for two
For the monopoly on view
To where the crockery is new
In curiosity renewed
By dreams so modestly accrued
.
Race you to the sunset
(Pocket you the moon)
Race you to the sunset
(Pocket you the moon)
.
Race you to the river side
To wade through stream revivified
With great esteem we dignified
By sitting pretty side-by-side
Giddy from the spinning top
We rode atop delighting in variety of ways to slip and slide
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
Shifting in a nifty drift of mist permitted lift
As we resisted urge to purge
Were then acquitted of our crimes
Had we persisted misaligned
Then we’d have missed the distant light
Which guided intermittently and cryptically reminded
Of a history reliant and intrinsically reprising
.
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
Pocket you the moon
(Moon)
(Moon)
.
Race you to the fresh horizon
Under a whole wealth of guises
Trying out the stars for size
To prize a sight our hearts assign
To each petite beat sweet of neat design
Ours tolled a some way kinder chime than mine, all mine
Thus with blinders open wide we redefined
With blinders open wide we redefined
.
(Race you to the sunset)
With blinders open wide we redefine
(Race you to the sunset)
With blinders open wide we redefine
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
Pocket you the moon
We redefine
Pocket you the moon
(Moon)
(Moon)
.
Race you to the stop sign
Then what say we keep on going
Open hearts outgrow their scars
Even though they may show signs of slowing
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
Pocket you the moon
(Moon)
(Moon)
What the future holds for us
There’s no real way of knowing
Yet sitting pretty side-by-side we’ll keep this river flowing
We’ll keep this river flowing
We’ll keep this river flowing
(Flowing)
.
Race you to the oldest wisest tree
We ever dreamed
Some place where both light and shade are interlaced beneath
(Flowing)
(Flowing)
Grab yourself a clutch of leaves and toss them to the skies
For here within this haven safe
You’ll only see them rise
(Flowing)
You’ll only see them rise
You’ll only see them rise
(Rise)
(Rise)
.
Play hide and seek with me
Let us find the secrets of their flight
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
Pocket you the moon
(Moon)
(Moon)
Play by day
Then whence it fades
Release them to the night
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
.
(Moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
.
Race you to the fresh horizon
Under a whole wealth of guises
Trying out the stars for size
To prize a sight our hearts assign
To each
To each
To each
To each
To each
To each
To each
To each
To each petite beat sweet of neat design
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
Ours tolls a some way kinder chime than mine all mine
Thus with blinders open wide we redefine
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
With blinders open wide we redefine
.
I shall pocket you the moon
Then build a rocket ship for two
In faith that we can breathe the dead space back to life again
Through eyes so wide
They crystallise a dream
Fame creation some place in-between
.
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
Pocket you the moon
(Moon)
(Moon)
(Pocket you the moon)
(Moon)
(Moon)
Pocket you the moon
(Moon)
(Moon)
.