Whistle Down The Wind movie - Unsettled Scores lyrics
rate me<br>
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[The Man]<br>
There's a prayer for the living and the dying<br>
There's a prayer to soothe the savage sea<br>
There's a prayer it seems for almost everything<br>
But you, you haven't got a prayer for me<br>
And I, I haven't got a prayer<br>
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So many cries in the night that you try to ignore<br>
Why didn't I do this ?, why didn't I do that ?<br>
So many unbroken chains, so many unsettled scores<br>
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The old man at the bank that sneers<br>
The teachers and their slaps<br>
The brutal eyes, the uniforms<br>
The lawyers and their traps<br>
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The lonely girls who yearn to love<br>
And learn to kiss and dance<br>
The rich and selfish widow<br>
In the market for romance<br>
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The soldier with the smell of war<br>
That never fades away<br>
The hero on the playing fields<br>
Forgotten in a day<br>
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The priest in the confessional<br>
The trembling hands and whispered sighs<br>
The doctors in the hospital<br>
Unending tests and twisted lies<br>
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The betrayers, the betrayed<br>
The abandoned, the afraid<br>
The corrupted and the celebrated<br>
Endlessly humiliated<br>
Gloriously big parade<br>
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You can say a prayer for everyone<br>
That there could ever be<br>
Say a prayer for all of these and more<br>
But there's still no prayer for me<br>
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Say a prayer for your purest daughter<br>
Toll a bell for your only son<br>
There's no way out and all my prayers<br>
Are fading one by one<br>
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The stern and disapproving lips<br>
The friends who just attack<br>
The fathers that they take away<br>
The ones that can't get back<br>
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The desperate boy who sleeps alone<br>
Whoever's in his bed<br>
The chosen ones they get a home<br>
The blessed get ahead<br>
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The kids out playing softball<br>
In the fading summer night<br>
The teenage lovers at the drive-in<br>
The glow of the dashboard light<br>
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An American flyer on a steep incline<br>
The wind blowing through your hair<br>
The trophies and the holidays, they vanished in the air<br>
The betrayers the betrayed, the abandoned the afraid<br>
The glorified the idolised, the big shots and their jealous eyes<br>
An amazingly big parade<br>
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You can say a prayer for anyone<br>
You've known or you might see<br>
Say a prayer for all of these and more<br>
But there's still no prayer for me<br>
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Say a prayer for every living thing<br>
The unborn and deceased<br>
But I haven't got a prayer I know<br>
That's the nature of the beast<br>
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