Circle Of Steel-Gordon Lightfoot

[ti:Circle Of Steel] [ar:Gordon Lightfoot] [al:Sundown] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Circle Of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot [00:17.85]Rows of lights in a circle of steel [00:21.31]Where you place your bets on a great big wheel [00:25.31] [00:26.66]High windows flickerin' down through the snow [00:30.58] [00:32.07]A time you know [00:33.36] [00:34.14]Sights and sounds of the people goin' round [00:37.53]Everybody's in step with the season [00:40.78] [00:44.17]A child is born to a welfare case [00:47.73]Where the rats run [00:49.27]Around like they own the place [00:51.94] [00:53.31]The room is chilly [00:54.90]The building is old [00:56.93] [00:58.62]That's how it goes [01:00.16] [01:00.68]The doctors found on his welfare rounds [01:04.07]And he comes and he leaves on the double [01:07.44] [01:10.63]Deck the Halls was the song they played [01:14.35]In the flat next door where they shout all day [01:18.23] [01:19.46]She tips her gin bottle back till it's gone [01:23.40] [01:24.95]The child is strong [01:26.40] [01:26.91]A week a day they will take it away [01:30.50]For they know about all her bad habits [01:35.05] [01:43.52]Christmas dawns and the snow lets up [01:46.87]And the sun hits the handle of her heirloom cup [01:50.63] [01:52.09]She hides her face in her hands for a while [01:56.25] [01:57.53]Says Look here child [01:59.68]Your fathers pride was his means to provide [02:03.14]And he's servin' three years for that reason [02:06.45] [02:09.94]Rows of lights in a circle of steel [02:13.28]Where you place your bets on a great big wheel [02:17.29] [02:18.69]High windows flickerin' down through the snow [02:22.78] [02:24.20]A time you know [02:25.39] [02:26.12]Sights and sounds of the people goin' round [02:29.58]Everybody's in step with the season