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Strawbs - The Life Auction Lyrics

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  • Row upon row
  • Of drab colourless houses
  • Bowing low
  • Before high rise blocks
  • Varicosed housewives
  • With sweaty armpits
  • Scrimping and scrubbing
  • Their husbands' socks
  • A limp polluted flag
  • Flutters sadly in its death throes
  • While crippled trees in leg irons
  • Wearily haul themselves
  • Through another diluted acid day.
  • The Auction
  • (Cousins/Lambert)
  • The vultures stood outside the gate
  • Quite unaware that fate
  • Is never kind to those who wait
  • In vain. Their pride
  • Betrays the means of their destruction.
  • Take my rings and trinkets bright
  • But leave my eyes which give me light
  • My tongue which gives me leave to speak
  • The rest is yours and welcome.
  • The wolves will suck the bones they bought
  • Those over which they fought
  • Their elders always having taught
  • Them envy. Their greed
  • Explains their total lack of conscience.
  • The auctioneer is seldom lost
  • Our paths have sometimes crossed
  • But he has never failed to count the cost
  • Of passion. Desire
  • Is the whole point of his existence.
  • Now you have given cause to bleed
  • You join the wolf pack as you feed
  • But now you find yourself in need
  • Of comfort. But peace of mind
  • Has no home for the loveless.

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