Flower Lady

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Millionaires and paupers walk 
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the hungry street
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Rich and poor companions of the 
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restless beat
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Strangers in a foreign land
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Strike a match with a trembling hand
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Learn too much to ever understand
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But nobody's buying flowers from 
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the flower lady


[Verse 2]

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Lover's quarrel, snarl away 
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their happiness
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Kisses crumble in a web of 
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loneliness
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It's written by the poison pen
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Voices break before they bend
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The door is slammed, it's over once 
again
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But nobody's buying flowers from 
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the flower lady


[Verse 3]

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Poets agonize, they cannot find 
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the words
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And the stone stares at the 
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sculptor, asks "Are you absurd?"
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The painter paints his brushes back
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Through the canvas runs a crack
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Portrait of the pain never answers 
back
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But nobody's buying flowers from 
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the flower lady


[Verse 4]

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Soldiers disillusioned come home
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 from the war
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Sarcastic students tell them not to 
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fight no more
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And they argue through the night
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Black is black, white is white
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Walk away both knowing they are 
right
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But nobody's buying flowers from 
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the flower lady


[Verse 5]

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Smoke dreams of escaping souls 
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are drifting by
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Dull the pain of living as they 
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slowly die
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Smiles change into a sneer
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Washed away by whiskey tears
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In the quicksand of their mind they 
disappear
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Still nobody's buying flowers 
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from the flower lady


[Verse 6]

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Feeble aged people almost to 
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their knees
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Complain about the present using 
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memories
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Never found their pot of gold
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Wrinkled hands pound weary holes
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Each line screams out you're old, 
you're old, you're old
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But nobody's buying flowers from 
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the flower lady


[Verse 7]

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And the flower lady hobbles home
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 without a sale
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Tattered shreds of petals leave a 
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fading trail
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Not a pause to hold a rose
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Even she no longer knows
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The lamp goes out, the evening now 
is closed
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And nobody's buying flowers from 
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the flower lady