Unsettled Scores-Original London Cast

UNSETTLED SCORES [The Man] There's a prayer for the living and the dying There's a prayer to soothe the savage sea There's a prayer it seems for almost everything But you, you haven't got a prayer for me And I, I haven't got a prayer So many cries in the night that you try to ignore Why didn't I do this ?, why didn't I do that ? So many unbroken chains, so many unsettled scores The old man at the bank that sneers The teachers and their slaps The brutal eyes, the uniforms The lawyers and their traps The lonely girls who yearn to love And learn to kiss and dance The rich and selfish widow In the market for romance The soldier with the smell of war That never fades away The hero on the playing fields Forgotten in a day The priest in the confessional The trembling hands and whispered sighs The doctors in the hospital Unending tests and twisted lies The betrayers, the betrayed The abandoned, the afraid The corrupted and the celebrated Endlessly humiliated Gloriously big parade You can say a prayer for everyone That there could ever be Say a prayer for all of these and more But there's still no prayer for me Say a prayer for your purest daughter Toll a bell for your only son There's no way out and all my prayers Are fading one by one The stern and disapproving lips The friends who just attack The fathers that they take away The ones that can't get back The desperate boy who sleeps alone Whoever's in his bed The chosen ones they get a home The blessed get ahead The kids out playing softball In the fading summer night The teenage lovers at the drive-in The glow of the dashboard light An American flyer on a steep incline The wind blowing through your hair The trophies and the holidays, they vanished in the air The betrayers the betrayed, the abandoned the afraid The glorified the idolised, the big shots and their jealous eyes An amazingly big parade You can say a prayer for anyone You've known or you might see Say a prayer for all of these and more But there's still no prayer for me Say a prayer for every living thing The unborn and deceased But I haven't got a prayer I know That's the nature of the beast