Life In A Tenement Square

	  		

Intro: 

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verse 1


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Well I kissed the day, I was on my way 
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From those cold grey blocks of stone 
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For seventeen years of squalor filled tears 
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A time now with innocence lost 
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As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom 
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Turnin? all hope to despair 
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And the only thing left was to flee from the nest 
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That was life in a Tenement Square 

Interlude: 

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verse 2 

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I remember the song where the rats sang along 
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And danced for their daily bread 
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While the damp washed the walls that were twenty feet tall 
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Not a child in the house was fed 
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On the porter filled face of the men left no trace 
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Of the coin they had already spent 
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While our mothers asked God what was Hell ever for 
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When you lived in a Tenement Square 


Bridge:
 

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Grab what?s left of the coal from the ole cubbyhole 
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These cinders need more to be a fire 
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While the ghosts of the soldiers that lived there before us 
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Laugh with their guns by their sides 
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I hear them laugh, with their guns by their sides 



verse 3
 
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Now politicians they dwell in that forgotten Hell 
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Our misery?s been turned into news 
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Where the fat of the land now hog, hand in hand 
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A crime now of life was ever true 
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As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom 
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Turnin? all hope to despair  
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And the only thing left was to flee from the nest 
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That was life in a Tenement Square