Strawbs - The Life Auction lyrics
rate meRow 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 />
<br />
The Auction<br />
(Cousins/Lambert)<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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.