The Crock Of Gold lyrics
Song information
Artist: The Tossers Album: The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
Lyrics
We'll live out our lives on this dirty old street Only because we just can't compete But in the concrete of our younger days, we left our names
Just like the people before, when they reached The distant shore with their drink and their dance And their dreams and sincere aims
Ghosts long gone, through old buildings they stare With their offspring staring at me for they are still there Dreams that are dead and lives not realized
Why did we write our names in these streets To show we're alive?
Well, chicago is my home and I'll never want to roam To live on any sun swept distant shore Well, it is where I was reared by forbearers so revered And I sing the songs that they all sang before
Well, any woman that's neared me Has been repelled most thoroughly Still I'm a lover god, I am foremost of all A musician that's my call of high degree professional But I'm afraid I do not know my trade at all
And if it's every twenty years Some small relief to me appears Then the crock of gold will wait until that day
To defend myself no more Lay the shield of anger at my door And the sword of alcohol will stow away
All the people in our town are overworked and broken down Begging cheques but it's just not enough they're giving Crying quietly, living life so desperately That something has to make this life worth living
Real life is only a timeline And the excitement holds the short times It will never measure up to what tv sells as great All the drunken jokes and views Exciting pubs they tell the news But the exciting pats, well, they just weren't all that great
I met a girl one night and enchantment fixed our sight So we decided we would hold it for awhile But she would not love me, so inside me finally said "It's not your fault." But I would like love if only for a while
Well, it's on and on I've seen, yeah that's how it's always been And how it will be as ever on I go Oh, but ever on I will Through all the banal times until I find some Place to me that seems like home
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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