Cardboard City Lyrics - Skyclad

Hands locked in darkness - a nocturnal greeting 

We flutter like moths round the brazier's flame 

Shrouded in shadow - our clandestine meeting 

Here where past and present are one and the same. 

No-one dies in Cardboard City 

Faces only fade away 

Eat your pride and take their pity 

Fight to live another day. 

And did those feet in ancient times 

Walk bare upon these lonely streets like mine? 

Does God watch us from that penthouse high above 

His children down below who live on air and love? 

Wrapped in old headlines beneath this shop awning 

I shiver in silence and wait for the morning. 

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No-one cries in Cardboard City 

That would be a waste of tears 

Eat your pride and take their pity 

Like you have so many years. 

Youth of our nation - A lost generation 

Like lepers we march to the chimes of Big Ben. 

Exiled and rejected by powers elected 

Our cries from the gutter don't reach number ten. 

Give us this day our daily bread 

Before the headlines read "bring out your dead." 

Chip-wrapper flowers are blown onto this cardboard grave 

My spray paint epitaph upon the wall it says... 

"Here lies the bones of some poor homeless vagrant 

He died as he lived, in the shit on the pavement." 

No-one dies in Cardboard City 

Faces only fade away 

Eat your pride and take their pity 

Fight to live another day. 

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No-one cries in Cardboard City 

That would be a waste of tears 

Eat your pride and take their pity 

Like you have so many years.