Strawbs - The Life Auction lyrics

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Row upon row <br />

Of drab colourless houses<br />

Bowing low<br />

Before high rise blocks<br />

Varicosed housewives<br />

With sweaty armpits<br />

Scrimping and scrubbing<br />

Their husbands' socks<br />

A limp polluted flag<br />

Flutters sadly in its death throes<br />

While crippled trees in leg irons<br />

Wearily haul themselves<br />

Through another diluted acid day.<br />

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The Auction<br />

(Cousins/Lambert)<br />

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The vultures stood outside the gate<br />

Quite unaware that fate<br />

Is unaware to those who wait<br />

In vain. Their pride<br />

Betrays the means of their destruction.<br />

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Take my rings and trinkets bright<br />

But leave my eyes which give me light<br />

My tongue which gives me leave to speak<br />

The rest is yours and welcome.<br />

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The wolves will suck the bones they bought<br />

Those over which they fought<br />

Their elders always having taught<br />

Them envy. Their greed<br />

Explains their total lack of conscience.<br />

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The auctioneer is seldom lost<br />

Our paths have sometimes crossed<br />

But he has never failed to count the cost<br />

Of passion. Desire<br />

Is the whole point of his existence.<br />

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Now you have given cause to bleed<br />

You join the wolf pack as you feed<br />

But now you find yourself in need<br />

Of comfort. But peace of mind<br />

Has no home for the loveless.