《The Life Auction》歌词

[00:00:00] The Life Auction - The Strawbs

[00:00:22] Row upon row

[00:00:24] Of drab colourless houses

[00:00:26] Bowing low

[00:00:27] Before high rise blocks

[00:00:30] Varicosed housewives

[00:00:32] With sweaty armpits

[00:00:33] Scrimping and scrubbing

[00:00:35] Their husbands' socks

[00:00:37] A limp polluted flag

[00:00:40] Flutters sadly in its death throes

[00:00:44] While crippled trees in leg irons

[00:00:47] Wearily haul themselves

[00:00:50] Through another diluted acid day

[00:01:06] The vultures stood outside the gate

[00:01:08] Quite unaware that fate

[00:01:10] Is never kind to those who wait

[00:01:13] In vain Their pride

[00:01:16] Betrays the means of their destruction

[00:01:24] Take my rings and trinkets bright

[00:01:26] But leave my eyes which give me light

[00:01:28] My tongue which gives me leave to speak

[00:01:33] The rest is yours and welcome

[00:01:39] The rest is yours and welcome

[00:02:04] The wolves will suck the bones they bought

[00:02:06] Those over which they fought

[00:02:08] Their elders always having taught

[00:02:11] Them envy Their greed

[00:02:15] Explains their total lack of conscience

[00:02:22] Take my rings and trinkets bright

[00:02:24] But leave my eyes which give me light

[00:02:27] My tongue which gives me leave to speak

[00:02:32] The rest is yours and welcome

[00:02:37] The rest is yours and welcome

[00:03:02] The auctioneer is seldom lost

[00:03:04] Our paths have sometimes crossed

[00:03:06] But he has never failed to count the cost

[00:03:10] Of passion Desire

[00:03:14] Is the whole point of his existence

[00:03:21] Take my rings and trinkets bright

[00:03:23] But leave my eyes which give me light

[00:03:26] My tongue which gives me leave to speak

[00:03:30] The rest is yours and welcome

[00:03:36] The rest is yours and welcome

[00:04:59] Now you have given cause to bleed

[00:05:02] You join the wolf pack as you feed

[00:05:04] But now you find yourself in need

[00:05:07] Of comfort But peace of mind

[00:05:11] Has no home for the loveless

[00:05:15] Has no home for the loveless

[00:05:21] Has no home for the loveless