《Cardboard Box City》歌词

[00:00:01] Cardboard Box City - The Levellers

[00:00:24] Have you seen them in every station

[00:00:29] Begging in their separate ways

[00:00:34] Some of them are no more than children

[00:00:40] Some of them are runaways

[00:00:45] I don't care for your opinion

[00:00:49] I've seen you turn your face the other way

[00:00:54] And you said to me "Son

[00:00:56] What's your problem

[00:00:59] Can't we talk about this over lunch some day "

[00:01:05] And I bet you've never been south of the river

[00:01:09] Down the Old Kent Road or down Southwark Way

[00:01:13] I bet you've never never seen them lying in the litter

[00:01:19] In the cardboard boxes where you make them stay

[00:01:34] In the docklands of East London

[00:01:38] Where those great tall ships once sailed

[00:01:43] Of a price of couple of hundred thousands

[00:01:48] I have seen your condominiums for sale

[00:01:54] In the north by the Archway Tavern

[00:01:58] You can see them lying there every day

[00:02:03] And they're drunk to hell

[00:02:04] They'll scream their minds to the heaven

[00:02:08] "My God why did it have to be this way "

[00:02:13] And I bet you've never been south of the river

[00:02:17] Down the Old Kent Road or down Southwark Way

[00:02:22] I bet you've never never seen them lying in the litter

[00:02:28] In the cardboard boxes where you make them stay

[00:02:48] I worked my time and I paid my taxes

[00:02:52] I've lined your pockets with my pay

[00:02:56] You said you'd take my money

[00:02:59] You said you'd help them

[00:03:01] But in your pockets it just seems to stay

[00:03:07] And I've seen your fancy house in Richmond

[00:03:12] And where you moor your boat on Kingston Quay

[00:03:17] Every week you take your wife and children sailing

[00:03:21] Try taking them down to South London some day

[00:03:27] And I bet you've never been south of the river

[00:03:31] Down the Old Kent Road or down Southwark Way

[00:03:36] I bet you've never never seen them lying in the litter

[00:03:41] In the cardboard boxes where you make them stay

[00:03:46] In the cardboard boxes where they have to stay