Public Service Broadcasting - Lit Up lyrics

[Presenter: Introduction] Once again we are taking you onboard HMS Nelson for a description of the scene at Spithead tonight by Lieutenant Commander Thomas Woodrooffe [Thomas Woodrooffe] At the present moment the whole fleet is lit up When I say lit up, I mean lit up by fairy lamps We've forgotten the whole royal review We've forgotten the royal review The whole thing is lit up by fairy lamps It's as fantastic – It shouldn't appear as tall It's... It's fairyland, the whole thing is fairyland It's fairyland Now when I say the fleet is lit up, in lamps I mean she's outlined, the whole ship's outlined In little lamps I'm sorry, I was telling to people to shut up talking What I mean is this: The whole fleet is lit up In fairy lamps Each ship is outlined Now as far as I can see I suppose I can see down about five or six miles The ships are all lit up They're outlined, the whole lot, even the destroyers are outlined In the old days, you know, destroyers used to be outlined by only a little kind of very bit of lights Nowdays, the destroyers are lit up...by... the outline looks solid In a second or two, we're going to fire a rocket, going to fire all sorts of [?] things You got to be here to hear them going off You may hear a minor reaction when I see them go Because... I'm going to try and tell you what they look like as they go off At the moment the whole huge fleet here The thing we saw this afternoon This colossal fleet Lit up By lights There's nothing between us and heaven There's nothing at all And the whole thing is in fairyland It isn't true It isn't here And, as I say it... [Fainter] I'm trying to give you, ladies and gentlemen, my concern The fleet's gone, it's disappeared I was talking to you In the middle of this damn... In the middle of this fleet And what's happened is the fleet's disappeared and gone We had one hundred, two hundred warships around us a second ago And now they have gone [Normal volume] It's gone, it's gone There's no fleet It's disappeared No magician who ever could have waved his wand could have waved it with more acumen than he had at the present moment