GORDON LIGHTFOOT - Circle Of Steel lyrics
rate meRows of lights in a circle of steel<br>Where you place your bets on a great big wheel<br>High windows flickerin' down through the snow<br>A time you know<br>Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round<br>Everybody's in step with the season<br>A child is born to a welfare case<br>Where the rats run around like they own the place<br>The room is chilly, the building is old<br>That's how it goes<br>The doctor's found on his welfare round<br>And he comes and he leaves on the double<br><br>Deck the halls was the song they played<br>In the flat next door where they shout all day<br>She tips her gin bottle back till it's gone<br>The child is strong<br>A week, a day, they will take it away<br>For they know about all her bad habits<br><br>Christmas dawns and the snow lets up<br>And the sun hits the handle of her heirloom cup<br>She hides her face in her hands for a while<br>Says look here child<br>Your father's pride was his means to provide<br>And he's servin' three years for that reason<br><br>Rows of lights in a circle of steel<br>Where you place your bets on a great big wheel<br>High windows flickerin' down through the snow<br>A time you know<br>Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round<br>Everybody's in step with the season
