Iron Man Recitative

The iron man came to the top of the cliff How far had he walked nobody knows Where had he come from nobody knows How was he made, nobody knows Taller than a house, the iron man stood At the top of the cliff in the darkness The wind sang through his iron fingers And his great iron head, shaped like a dustbin But as big as a bedroom Slowly turned to the right, slowly turned to the left He was hearing the sea His eyes like headlamps, glowed white then red Then infra-red, searching the sea Never before had the iron man seen the sea He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back He swayed forward on the brink of the high cliff And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot Lifted-up out into space And the iron man stepped forward, off the cliff into nothingness Crash Down the cliff, the iron man came toppling head over heels Crash, crash, crash From rock to rock, tumbling slowly And as he crashed and crashed, his iron legs fell off His iron arms broke off And the hands broke off the arms His great iron ears fell off And his eyes fell out His great iron head fell off All the separate pieces tumbled scattered crashing Bumping clanging down, on to the rocky beach far below Then silence Nobody knew the iron man had fallen Nobody knew the iron man had fallen