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Old Aces Die Hard
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Ian Anderson
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The light, it is fading along the green belt As the millions weep for their children Sitting detached in the suburban ness As politics brew in the cauldron Dark ages Spilling no secrets from the old house of cards That stand immune as the great disease rages Through the pack stacked with jokers Old aces die hard Unfinished flyovers crack in the winter And the gra** grows still through the concrete The last words of Prime Ministers drop like the pin Breaking silence left by their cold feet Dark ages Spilling no secrets from the old house of cards That stand immune as the great disease rages Through the pack stacked with jokers Old aces die hard And mother superior calls for the light To mark heaven's request for repentance But the football crowds mutter and pray for the night And march to their doom with acceptance Dark ages Plant their last seed on the withering land To grow in the dust of yesterday's wages Underwritten by the pen of history's hand And the blue dawn And cracks on the morn Of another day Ten thousand years away And the seeds that were sown Into young men have grown Fathers to Their youngest child to place In the camp fire's sight Dead as the night That he can't quite recall He can't quite recall When the dreams in his head were the stones In his bed and the shouts of the sun as it falls And the women wake and they laugh as they shake Their frosty sleep from their hair And put that same old kettle on And sing that same old pagan song Dark ages History's karma is rattling its chains Dark ages Civilization's menstrual pains The bone's in the china, the fat's in the fire There's no turkey left on the table The commuters return on the six o'clock flyer Brings no bale of straw for the stable Dark ages Spilling no secrets from the old house of cards That stand immune as the great disease rages Through the pack stacked with jokers Old aces die hard Dark ages Spilling no secrets from the old house of cards That stands immune as the great disease rages Through the pack stacked with jokers Old aces die hard
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