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Palaces of Gold

from The Sea and the Sky by Dana Wylie

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lyrics

If the sons of company directors and judges' private daughters
Had to go to school in a slum school
Dumped by some joker in a dead-end back alley
Had to herd into classrooms cramped with worry
With a view over slag heaps and stagnant pools
Had to walk down corridors grey with age
And play in a cracked up concrete cage...

Buttons would be pressed
Rules would be broken
Strings would be pulled
And magic words spoken
Invisible fingers would mould
Palaces of Gold

If Prime Ministers and advertising executives
Royal personages and bank managers' wives
Had to live out their lives in dank rooms
Blinded by smoke and the foul air of sewers
Rot in the walls and rats in the cellars
In rows of damp houses like mouldering tombs
Had to bring up their children
And watch them grow in a wasteland of deadstreets
Where nothing would grow...

Buttons would be pressed
Rules would be broken
Strings would be pulled
And magic words spoken
Invisible fingers would mould
Palaces of Gold

I'm not saying that there's any sort of a plot
Everyone knows there's not
But you unborn millions might like to be warned:
If you don't want to be buried alive by slag heaps
Pit falls and dank walls and rat traps and dead streets
Arrange to be democratically born the son of a company director
Or a judge's fine and private daughter

Buttons will be pressed
Rules will be broken
Strings will be pulled
And magic words spoken
Invisible fingers will mould
Palaces of Gold

credits

from The Sea and the Sky, released May 24, 2014
Written by Leon Rosselson
Dana – vocals, guitar
Kirsten Elliott – flute, vocals

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Dana Wylie Edmonton, Alberta

Dana Wylie is a musician and theatre artist from Edmonton, Alberta, whose original work is rootsy, spacious, thought- provoking, and essentially joyful. Her fifth and latest album, The Earth That You’re Made Of, earned her a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for Contemporary Singer of the Year. ... more

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