Cardboard Box City-The Levellers

[ti:Cardboard Box City] [ar:The Levellers] [al:A Weapon Called The Word] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Cardboard Box City - The Levellers [00:24.50]Have you seen them in every station [00:26.72] [00:29.72]Begging in their separate ways [00:31.75] [00:34.85]Some of them are no more than children [00:37.42] [00:40.10]Some of them are runaways [00:42.14] [00:45.21]I don't care for your opinion [00:47.27] [00:49.96]I've seen you turn your face the other way [00:52.74] [00:54.56]And you said to me "Son [00:56.52]What's your problem [00:57.48] [00:59.45]Can't we talk about this over lunch some day " [01:02.49] [01:05.13]And I bet you've never been south of the river [01:09.03]Down the Old Kent Road or down Southwark Way [01:13.71]I bet you've never never seen them lying in the litter [01:19.23]In the cardboard boxes where you make them stay [01:23.67] [01:34.34]In the docklands of East London [01:36.34] [01:38.84]Where those great tall ships once sailed [01:41.17] [01:43.29]Of a price of couple of hundred thousands [01:46.38] [01:48.00]I have seen your condominiums for sale [01:51.18] [01:54.10]In the north by the Archway Tavern [01:56.39] [01:58.84]You can see them lying there every day [02:01.30] [02:03.20]And they're drunk to hell [02:04.99]They'll scream their minds to the heaven [02:06.80] [02:08.25]"My God why did it have to be this way " [02:11.07] [02:13.87]And I bet you've never been south of the river [02:17.77]Down the Old Kent Road or down Southwark Way [02:22.81]I bet you've never never seen them lying in the litter [02:27.44] [02:28.00]In the cardboard boxes where you make them stay [02:32.75] [02:48.28]I worked my time and I paid my taxes [02:50.54] [02:52.82]I've lined your pockets with my pay [02:54.94] [02:56.82]You said you'd take my money [02:59.15]You said you'd help them [03:00.50] [03:01.65]But in your pockets it just seems to stay [03:04.99] [03:07.66]And I've seen your fancy house in Richmond [03:10.20] [03:12.55]And where you moor your boat on Kingston Quay [03:16.28] [03:17.62]Every week you take your wife and children sailing [03:21.21] [03:21.91]Try taking them down to South London some day [03:24.86] [03:27.47]And I bet you've never been south of the river [03:31.47]Down the Old Kent Road or down Southwark Way [03:36.22]I bet you've never never seen them lying in the litter [03:40.76] [03:41.31]In the cardboard boxes where you make them stay [03:45.84] [03:46.39]In the cardboard boxes where they have to stay