Streets - On The Flip Of A Coin lyrics

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From the point he gazed from the choice was made, but 'walk the cave or the shore?'<br />

The oily cave seemed to breathe on him through gravestone jaws<br />

His little hand grasped in anguish as he weighed up his coin<br />

Somewhere a blue-eyed girl in the world is just waiting for a boy<br />

Footprints trailed as if trod by slaves up to the grey cave floor<br />

But not one graze from anything ever escaping this fort<br />

So with coin on hand his joy came back when ordered to take the shore<br />

'Why on earth', as he wandered the warmth, 'am I obeying this coin?'<br />

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Turn your life on the flip of this coin<br />

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid<br />

And promise me you'll follow what it says<br />

Whatever it says<br />

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Again, walk within the trusted beach or swim the swell of the sea?<br />

And again the scarier alternative looked like certain death to he<br />

He'd never learnt to skill of swimming - it never occurred to be very easy<br />

And again he winced as he flipped the coin and it twirled to his feet<br />

'How is this sane?' he blamed the coin now aiming for the waves<br />

As he hesitated at the swirl of water as it raged and rained<br />

Blue-eyed girls were waiting and he was drowning in the spray<br />

Blue-eyed girls he should have been acquainted with but for shouting and flailing<br />

<br />

Turn your life on the flip of this coin<br />

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid<br />

And promise me you'll follow what it says<br />

Whatever it says<br />

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He finally slugs it back to land feeling chewed-up and foolish<br />

Empties his pockets on the sand spewing a pool each<br />

Staggers back to his dad who's too cool to be<br />

So he says 'why did you have me follow this stupid rule, please?'<br />

To be honest little fellow I'll tell you<br />

I was just as afraid as you<br />

But you said you wanted to get with people and places ever new<br />

And I got a bit scared of the fate of my baby son's future<br />

So I invented a reason to see if you could ever make do<br />

As soon as you appeared behind that rock looking angry at me<br />

I soon realised what a hell of a man you've ended up being<br />

I knew you'd worked out how to swim, which I hadn't had in me<br />

And I stand as a companion of you, proudest a man has ever been<br />

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Turn your life on the flip of this coin<br />

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid<br />

And promise me you'll follow what it says<br />

Whatever it says