Tytuł: You pay your money

• Wykonawca: Bruce Cockburn
• Wyświetleń: 277

Woman cry -- chase man down street crying "No Chuckie, no, please don't"
   Another girl comes they run along St. Andrew, turn south on Kensington
   Meanwhile Chuckie beats it down the alley by the chicken packer's
   By the time I reach the corner they've all vanished
   Just a deaf kid talking like Popeye to a large fleshy laughing man in a blue shirt
   You pay your money and you take your chance
   When you're dealing with love and romance
  
   Down the alley past the fire escape a woman is talking on the telephone
   Kitchen light spills out, laughter riding on its beam
   In the maze of moebius streets we're trying to amuse ourselves to death
   Under the deep sky that's squatting so close over us tonight
   You'd think it was trying to hatch us
   The numb and confused
   The battered and bruised
   The counters of cost
   And the star-crossed
   You pay your money and you take your chance
   When you're dealing with love and romance
  
   Confused and solo in the spawning ground i watch the confusion of friends all numb with love
   Moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night-long conversations, of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices
   In spite of themselves, graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window
   Stay or leave, give or withold, hesitate or leap
   Each step splashing sparks of red pain in every direction
   And through it all, somehow, this willingness that asks no questions
   You pay your money and you take your chance
   When you're dealing with love and romance.