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Язык песни: Английский
Mother England Reverie |
Minstrel In The Gallery |
Mother England Reverie |
I have no time for Time Magazine or Rolling Stone. |
I have no wish for wishing wells or wishing bones. |
I have no house in the country I have no motor car. |
And if you think I’m joking, then I’m just a one-line |
joker in a public bar. |
And it seems there’s no-body left for tennis; and I’m |
a one-band-man. |
And I want no Top Twenty funeral or a hundred grand. |
There was a little boy stood on a burning log, |
rubbing his hands with glee. He said, ``Oh Mother England, |
did you light my smile; or did you light |
this fire under me? |
One day I’ll be a minstrel in the gallery. |
And paint you a picture of the queen. |
And if sometimes I sing to a cynical degree --- |
it’s just the nonsense that it seems.'' |
So I drift down through the Baker Street valley, |
in my steep-sided un-reality. |
And when all is said and all is done --- I couldn’t wish |
for a better one. |
It’s a real-life ripe dead certainty --- |
that I’m just a Baker Street Muse. |
Talking to the gutter-stinking, winking in the same |
old way. |
I tried to catch my eye but I looked the other way. |
Indian restaurants that curry my brain --- |
newspaper warriors changing the names they |
advertise from the station stand. |
Circumcised with cold print hands. |
Windy bus-stop. Click. Shop-window. Heel. |
Shady gentleman. Fly-button. Feel. |
In the underpass, the blind man stands. |
With cold flute hands. |
Symphony match-seller, breath out of time --- |
you can call me on another line. |
Didn’t make her --- with my Baker Street Ruse. |
Couldn’t shake her --- with my Baker Street Bruise. |
Like to take her --- but I’m just a Baker Street Muse. |
(I can’t get out!) |
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