Glass Houses-Jon English

[00:34.86]Born in forty nine [00:39.98]Part of a long long line of roses and wine [00:46.73]And we wore clouds of thread and we buried our dead [00:53.77]The future was mine or so they said [01:02.48]And late in sixty five [01:07.65]Underneath sun and skies hearing words from wise some dowers [01:15.26]Teaching the past through a rose colored glass [01:21.31]Said the Felix will rise from the ashes at last [01:29.93]And build glass houses with ivory towers [01:36.63]On streets paved with gold where we'll never grow old [01:43.85]And old glass houses and ivory towers [01:50.98]Are not what they seem they're fragile as dreams [01:56.67] [02:02.77]And oh seventy one [02:07.74]They were handing out boots and guns to some mother's son [02:14.67]But seventy eight they said sorry but we made a mistake [02:21.80]Time for some fun ooh ain't life great [02:30.42]In tall glass houses with ivory towers [02:37.11]The beaches are gold and we'll never grow old [02:44.49]And old glass houses ivory towers [02:51.10]There fragile as dreams but never what they seem [02:57.38]You know nowadays you go to town [03:01.38]There's glass all around [03:04.55]And they're still building towers [03:07.64]And they're buried deep in the ground [03:15.51]A travesty staring at me [03:19.22] [03:25.88]Old glass houses ivory towers [03:32.48]They flash like a sun from every one [03:41.13]We live in glass houses with ivory towers [03:47.98]Protecting our gold and we're all growing old [03:54.54] [04:06.81]And we're all growing old [04:13.68]