Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Millionaires and pauper
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s walk the hungry streets
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Rich and poor companions of the
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restless beat
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Strangers in a foreign land,
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trembling hand,
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lend too much to ever
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But nobody's
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from the flower lady
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away their happiness
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Kisses crumble in a web
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of loneliness
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It's written by
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Voices break before they bend
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it's over once again
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But nobody's
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buying flowers
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from the flower
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Poets agonize, they cannot find the words
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An d the stone
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and asks, are you absurd?
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The painter paints his brushes black
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The portrait of the pain never
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answers back
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But nobody's
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buying flowers
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for the flower lady
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Soldiers' disillusion come home
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from the war
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Sarcastic students tell them not to
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fight no more
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An d they argue through the night
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Black is black and white is white
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They walk away both knowing
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that they're right
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Still nobody's buying flowers
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in the flower lady
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Smoke dreams of escaping souls
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are drifting by
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Dull the pain of living as they
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slowly die
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Smiles change into a sneer
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Washed away by whiskey tears
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they disappear
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Still nobody's
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buying flowers
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And the flower lady
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Feeble aged people almost
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to their knees
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Complain about the present
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using memories
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Never
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weary halls
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you're old, you're old
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But nobody's buying flowers
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from the flower lady
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The flower lady hobbles home
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without a sale
Tattered shreds of petals
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leave a fading trail
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Not a pause to hold a rose
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And even she no longer knows
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the evening now is closed
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An d nobody's
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buying flowers
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from the flower
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And nobody's buying flowers
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from the flower lady
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