Complex sentence: It begins like a lullaby with minimal acoustic guitar strums, with Orbison introducing the listener to "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman" half-spoken and half-sung in a Sprechgesang fashion common in operas and other musical theater performances.
Split into simpler sentences: It begins like a lullaby with minimal acoustic guitar strums, with Orbison introducing the listener to "A candy-colored clown they call the sandman". The introduction is half-spoken and half-sung in a "Sprechgesang" fashion found in operas and other musical theater performances.