Intro
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As the winding path takes me down
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In the dust where the air grows still
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Past the shattered sills to where the broken bricks
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Lie tossed at the foot of the hill
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To the gentle hum of the engines far
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And the cry of the birds through the air
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With the falling grace of dull light on my face
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To the city I vacantly stare
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Down at these hands that hang by my side
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To the times they have twisted and bowed
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For the graft they've done, the thousand tasks been run
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To lie still and idle now
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As a boy I would sit here and whistle my tune
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And watch the world role on by
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From the heat of the red-brick factories roar
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The smoke spun soft in the sky
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My boyhood dreaming waned as I grew
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No more watching the race from afar
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With steel-toe boots and a coarse boiler-suit
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D# lad amidst the furnaces scars
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I learned my trade, how I listened and watched
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I worked as hard as hard can be
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But with passing years I grew proud with hope
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Of a future that was never to be
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Late in the day as the Autumn turned pale
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D# figure watched us work from the door
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Into burning air his words spoke clear
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In a haze our jobs were no more
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I awoke each morning, days stretched into nights
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And I lurched through a hollow routine
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In the queues each week with companions I'd stand
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But our fortunes had turned on our dreams
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For two sons and a daughter we had to provide
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My wife worked long into the nights
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To escape the stale air of a room with four walls
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I skimmed stones at the quarry till light
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In the years that followed things picked up and shone
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And I hustled a job where I could
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Re-skilled and re-tooled with a home of our own
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In a strange shifting world we were stood
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As time wore on our children grew tall
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And I taught them all that I'd learned
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In and out of trouble, the same as their dad
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Dodging cops, running streets at Pikes turn
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As some strangers say, we've carved our own way
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In a world that still lists and turns
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But once again there's no work for the young in this town
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And the queues form in air that still burns
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With the dusk tales said, as the evening light ebbs
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My son walks off into the night
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With only dull flapping wings of the last bird that sings
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He skims stones at the quarry till light
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