The 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>

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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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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<br>