| Millionaires and paupers walk the hungry street
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| Rich and poor companions of the 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 the flower lady
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| Lover’s quarrel, snarl away their happiness
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| Kisses crumble in a web of 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 the flower lady
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| Poets agonize, they cannot find the words
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| And the stone stares at the 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 the flower lady
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| Soldiers disillusioned come home from the war
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| Sarcastic students tell them not to 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 the flower lady
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| Smoke dreams of escaping souls are drifting by
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| Dull the pain of living as they 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 from the flower lady
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| Feeble aged people almost to their knees
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| Complain about the present using 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 the flower lady
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| And the flower lady hobbles home without a sale
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| Tattered shreds of petals leave a 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 the flower lady |