Southside Tenements

	  		David Knopfler - Southside Tenements 
  
  
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London City has Southside Tenements 
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Rusty cans, broken cars, cracked cement 
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Someone blocked the drain, someone smashed a vent 
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In a Southside, a Southside Tenement 
  
  
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London City has Southside Tenements 
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Flags are flying for some royal event 
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There's people hanging out of the St. Paul's windows 
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Lining up on the pavement and on the High Street 
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And the City Road and from Crossfields 
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And the Southside Tenement 
  
  
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Well I get restive, and I got to leave 
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I'm taking the shortcut home, past the arches, by the railway 
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Where an old friend swears that maybe he could save me 
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For a crazy boy, he's okay 
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For a Southside, a Southside cavalcade 
  
  
Bridge: 
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Hear the haunted, the haunted serenader 
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He's just a memory, a-fading on The Broadway 
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Fading from the Southside 
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The Southside Tenement 
  
  
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Sleepwalking to The Oxford Arms 
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No-one noticed warehouse alarms 
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Slamming dominoes in the back bar, safe from harm 
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By the Southside, the Southside Tenement 
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By the Southside, the Southside Tenement 
  
  
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London City has Southside Tenements 
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Cops saying that my kids are thieves, and they say "The Bill are bent" 
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Well, I dunno, I'm only sharing rent 
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In a Southside, a Southside Tenement 
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A Southside Tenement 
  
  
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London City has Southside Tenements 
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Broken parts, broken hearts, cracked cement 
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Some spray-can words 'bout love and gold - remember them? 
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And the madman crying "Nobody's condemned" 
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Not even Southside, Southside Tenement 
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And I remember Southside Tenement 
  
  
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