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Palaces of Gold Lyrics by Martin Simpson

Vagrant Stanzas

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If the sons of company directors
And judges' private daughters
Had to got to school in a slum school
Dumped by some joker in a damp back alley
Had to herd into classrooms cramped with worry
With a view onto slagheaps and stagnant pools
Had to file through corridors grey with age
And play in a crackpot concrete cage
Chorus (after each verse):
Buttons would be pressed
Rules would be broken
Strings would be pulled
And magic words spoken
Invisible fingers would mould
Palaces of gold
If prime ministers and advertising executives
Royal personages and bank managers' wives
Had to live out their lives in dank rooms
Blinded by smoke and the foul air of sewers
Rot on the walls and rats in the cellars
In rows of dumb houses like mouldering tombs
Had to bring up their children and watch them grow
In a wasteland of dead streets where nothing will grow
I'm not suggesting any kind of a plot
Everyone knows there's not
But you unborn millions might like to be warned
That if you don't want to be buried alive by slagheaps
Pit-falls and damp walls and rat-traps and dead streets
Arrange to be democratically born
The son of a company director
Or a judge's fine and private daughter
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Martin Simpson

Martin Simpson

About “Palaces of Gold” by Martin Simpson

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"Palaces of Gold" appears on "Vagrant Stanzas".

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