Ballad Of Accounting-The Delgados

[ti:Ballad Of Accounting] [ar:The Delgados] [al:The Complete BBC Peel Sessions] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ballad Of Accounting - The Delgados [00:05.11]In the morning we built this city [00:07.82] [00:08.95]In the afternoon walked through it's streets [00:11.33] [00:12.23]Evening saw us leaving [00:14.66] [00:15.69]We wandered through our days [00:17.26]As if they would never end [00:18.94] [00:19.79]All of us imagined we had endless time to spend [00:22.91] [00:23.56]We hardly saw the crossroads and [00:25.76]Small attention gave to landmarks [00:28.36]In the journey from the cradle to the grave [00:31.03]Cradle to the grave cradle to the grave [00:33.65] [00:45.53]Did you learn to dream in the morning [00:48.39] [00:48.94]Abandon dreams in the afternoon [00:51.28] [00:52.72]Wait without hope in the evening [00:55.06] [00:56.20]Did you stand there in the traces and let them feed you lies [01:00.00]Did you trail along behind them wearing blinkers on your eyes [01:03.25] [01:03.86]Did you kiss the foot that kicked you [01:05.79]Did you thank them for their scorn [01:07.72]Did you ask for their forgiveness for the act of being born [01:11.37]Act of being born act of being born [01:13.90] [01:21.95]Did you alter the face of this city [01:24.53] [01:25.82]Did you make any change in the world you found [01:27.98] [01:28.74]Or did you observe all the warnings [01:31.15] [01:32.48]Did you read this trespass notice that you keep off the grass [01:36.31]Did you shuffle off the pavement just to let your betters pass [01:39.52] [01:40.18]Did you learn to keep your mouth shut [01:42.10]To be seen and never heard [01:43.34] [01:44.00]Did you learn to be obedient [01:45.40] [01:45.94]And jump to an a word and jump to an a word [01:49.01]And jump to an a word [01:50.18] [02:01.95]Did you ever demand any answers [02:04.51] [02:05.12]The who and the what and the reason why [02:07.84] [02:09.04]Did you ever question the setup [02:11.35] [02:12.58]Did you stand aside and let them choose [02:14.58]While you took second best [02:15.70] [02:16.33]Did you let them skim cream off [02:18.12]And then give to you the rest [02:19.57] [02:20.18]Did you settle for the shoddy [02:21.51] [02:22.07]Did you think it right to let them rob right and left [02:25.97]And never make a fight never make a fight [02:28.57] [02:29.12]Never make a fight [02:30.07] [02:41.09]What did you learn in the morning [02:42.93] [02:43.99]How much did you know in the afternoon [02:45.84] [02:47.63]Were you content in the evening [02:50.04] [02:51.35]Did't you how to question [02:52.67] [02:53.22]When you were at the school [02:54.56] [02:55.24]Did the factory help you grow over you [02:57.28]To make an ardor too [02:58.47] [02:59.07]Did the place where you were living [03:00.57] [03:01.11]Enrich your life with land [03:02.38] [03:02.96]Did you reach some understanding of all your fellow man [03:06.50]All your fellow man all your fellow man