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  • A city freeze
  • Get on your knees
  • Pray for warmth and green paper.
  • A city drought
  • Youre down and out
  • See your trousers dont taper.
  • Saddle up
  • Kick your feet
  • Ride the range of a london street
  • Travel to a local plane
  • Turn around and come back again.
  • And at the chime of the city clock
  • Put up your road block
  • Hang on to your crown.
  • For a stone in a tin can
  • Is wealth to the city man
  • Who leaves his armour down.
  • Stay indoors
  • Beneath the floors
  • Talk with neighbours only.
  • The games you play
  • Make people say
  • Youre either weird or lonely.
  • A city star
  • Wont shine too far
  • On account of the way you are
  • And the beads
  • Around your face
  • Make you sure to fit back in place.
  • And at the beat of the city drum
  • See how your friends come in twos;
  • Or threes or more.
  • For the sound of a busy place
  • Is fine for a pretty face
  • Who knows what a face is for.
  • The city clown
  • Will soon fall down
  • Without a face to hide in.
  • And he will lose
  • If he wont choose
  • The one he may confide in.
  • Sonny boy
  • With smokes for sale
  • Went to ground with a face so pale
  • And never heard
  • About the change
  • Showed his hand and fell out of range.
  • In the light of a city square
  • Find out the face thats fair
  • Keep it by your side.
  • When the light of the city falls
  • You fly to the city walls
  • Take off with your bride.
  • But at the chime of a city clock
  • Put up your road block
  • Hang on to your crown.
  • For a stone in a tin can
  • Is wealth to the city man
  • Who leaves his armour down.

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