Cardboard City-Skyclad

[ti:Cardboard City] [ar:Skyclad] [al:Another Fine Mess] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cardboard City (贫民区) - Skyclad [00:25.36]Hands locked in darkness a nocturnal greeting [00:30.17]We flutter like moths round the brazier's flame [00:34.91] [00:35.66]Shrouded in shadow our clandestine meeting [00:40.46]Here where past and present are one and the same [00:45.20] [00:45.97]No one dies in Cardboard City [00:48.40]Faces only fade away [00:50.91]Eat your pride and take their pity [00:53.59]Fight to live another day [00:55.91] [00:56.84]And did those feet in ancient times [01:01.03] [01:02.15]Walk bare upon these lonely streets like mine [01:06.39] [01:07.57]Does God watch us from the penthouse high above [01:12.63]His children down below who live on air and love [01:17.75] [01:19.06]Wrapped in old headlines beneath this shop awning [01:23.87]I shiver in silence and wait for the morning [01:29.25]No one cries in Cardboard City [01:32.13]Faces only fade away [01:34.37]Eat your pride and take their pity [01:37.06]Fight to live another day [01:39.68]No one cries in Cardboard City [01:42.24]That would be a waste of tears [01:44.79]Eat your pride and take their pity [01:47.37]Like you have so many years [01:49.87] [02:47.49]Youth of our nation a lost generation [02:51.61]Like lepers we march to the chimes of Big Ben [02:56.22] [02:56.73]Exiled and rejected by powers elected [03:01.16] [03:01.72]Our cries from the gutter don't reach number ten [03:06.27] [03:07.59]Give us this day our daily bread [03:11.70] [03:12.82]Before the headlines read "Bring out your dead" [03:16.82] [03:18.13]Chip-wrapper flowers are blown onto this cardboard grave [03:22.81] [03:23.38]My spray paint epitaph upon the wall it says [03:28.07] [03:29.56]"Here lie the bones of some poor homeless vagrant [03:34.17]He died as he lived in the shits on the pavement" [03:39.67]No one dies in Cardboard City [03:42.04]Faces only fade away [03:44.10] [03:44.73]Eat your pride and take their pity [03:47.23]Fight to live another day [03:49.34] [03:49.97]No one cries in Cardboard City [03:52.34]That would be a waste of tears [03:54.96]Eat your pride and take their pity [03:57.52]Like you have so many years