Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Hands locked in darkness - a nocturnal greeting
We flutter like moths round the
brazier's flame
Shrouded in shadow - our
clandestine meeting
Here where past and present
Verse 2
are one and the same.
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No-one dies dies in Cardboard City
Faces only fade away
Verse 3
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feet in
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Walk bare upon these lonely
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streets like mine?
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His children down below who
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neath this shop awning
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I shiver in silence and wait for the
Interlude 1
morning.
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That would be a waste of tears
Eat your pride and take their pity
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Like you have so many years.
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Verse 5
Like lepers we march to the
chimes of Big Ben.
Exiled and rejected by powers elected
Our cries from the gutter
don't reach number ten.
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Give us this day our daily bread
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Before the headlines read "bring
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out your dead."
Chip-wrapper flowers flowers are
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blown onto this cardboard grave
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My spray paint epitaph upon
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the wall it says...
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poor homeless vagrant
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He died as he lived,
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in the shit on the pavement."
Verse 6
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No-one dies dies in Cardboard City
Eat your pride and take their pity
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Fight to live another day.
Verse 7
That would be a waste of tears
Eat your pride and take their pity
Outro 1
years.
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