Youth and Art
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It once might have been, once only
We lodged in the street together
You, a sparrow on a housetop, lonely
I, a lone sheep, bird of his feather
Your trade was with sticks and clay
Your thumb thrust, powdered and polished
And then a laugh they will see some day
Was Smith, Maid and Gibson demolished
And my business was song-song-song
I chirped, cheeped, trilled and twittered
And Kate Brown's on the boards here long
And Chris's existence in bitter
And we studied hard in our styles
And chipped each other at a cross like Hindus
And for rare looked at the tiles
And for fun watched each other's windows
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh-huh, uh-huh
You shook your notes 'til you sighed and smoked
And gossiped about who was in love with who
Gave a nasty little speech about my beautiful boy
Kept me on my toes like it was condition one
Don't forget that the people remember
You've got the letter, return to sender
And soon I managed to find
Weak points in the flower fencing facing
Was forced to put up the blind
And be safe in my corset lacing
Oh, why did I not pinch a flower
In a pellet of clay and fling it?
Why did I not put a power
Offence in a look or sing it?
I did look sheepish and lynx
And yet the memory rankles
And when two models arrive, some minx
And tripped upstairs, she ran cold
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh
Whatever happened to that kid who saw colours
And spoke in a dream about a flower creatures?
There was a secret, now pass it on
There will surely be a time for you to pass it on
No grudges, no life coaches
No books on diets and doses
You know you've changed, not for the better
You know you've changed, not for the worse
And don't forget that the people remember
You've got the letter, return to sender
You've got the letter, return to sender
And each life unfulfilled, you see
In an eye still patchy and scrappy
We have not sighed beastly despair
And love of being happy
And nobody calls you a dunce
And people supposed to be clever
It could have happened once
But we missed it, and lost forever
Lost forever