Glass House-Jon English

[00:34.12]Born in forty-nine [00:39.27]Part of a long long line of roses and wine [00:45.93]And we wore clouds of thread and we buried our dead [00:52.86]The future was mine [00:58.54]Or so they said [01:01.48]And late in sixty-five [01:06.83]Underneath sun and skies hearing words from wise some dowers [01:14.42]Teaching the past through a rose coloured glass [01:20.23]Said the Fenix will rise from the ashes at last [01:29.12]And build glass houses with ivory towers [01:35.87]On streets paved with gold where we'll never grow old [01:42.91]And old glass houses and ivory towers [01:49.67]Are not what they seem they're fragile as dreams [01:55.96] [02:02.05]Oh seventy-one [02:06.70]They were handing out boots and guns to some mother's son [02:13.83]But seventy-eight they said sorry but we made a mistake [02:21.07]Time for some fun [02:26.36]Ooh ain't life great [02:29.54]In tall glass houses with ivory towers [02:36.13]The beaches are gold and we'll never grow old [02:43.46]And old glass houses ivory towers [02:50.12]There fragile as dreams but never what they seem [02:56.54]You know nowadays you go to town [03:00.51]There's glass all around [03:03.63]And they're still building towers [03:06.48]And they're buried deep in the ground [03:14.00]A travesty staring at me [03:18.74] [03:25.04]Old glass houses ivory towers [03:31.45]They flash like a sun from every one [03:40.27]We live in glass houses with ivory towers [03:47.08]Protecting our gold and we're all growing old [03:53.83] [04:05.94]And we're all growing old [04:12.38]