London

Song London
Artist Sparklehorse
Album Someday I Will Treat You Good

Lyrics

[ti:London]
[ar:Sparklehorse]
[al:]
[00:11.65] I wander through each chartered street,
[00:16.83] near where the chartered Thames does flow,
[00:21.96] and mark in every face I meet
[00:27.61] marks of weakness, marks of woe
[00:42.86] in every cry of every man,
[00:47.71] in every infant's cry of fear,
[00:52.78] in every voice, in every ban,
[00:58.02] the mind-forged manacles I hear.
[01:23.43] how the chimney-sweeper's cry
[01:28.48] every blackening church appalls,
[01:33.67] and the hapless soldier's sigh
[01:38.46] runs in blood down palace walls
[02:03.66] but most, through midnight streets I hear
[02:08.71] how the youthful harlot's curse
[02:13.92] blasts the new-born infant's tear
[02:18.91] and blights with plagues the marriage hearse
[02:23.77] I wander through each chartered street,
[02:28.87] near where the chartered Thames does flow,
[02:33.66] and mark in every face I meet
[02:38.97] marks of weakness, marks of woe