Jon English - Gla** Houses lyrics

Born, in forty-nine Part of a long-long line of roses and wine And we wore clouds of thread and we buried our dead The future was mine, or so they said And late, in sixty-five Underneath sun and skies, hearin' words from wise, some dowers Teaching the past, through a rose coloured gla** Said the Fenix will rise, from the ashes at last And build gla** houses with ivory towers On streets paved with gold, where we'll never grow old And old gla** houses and ivory towers Are not what they seem, they're fragile as dreams And oh, seventy-one They were handin' out boots and guns to some mother's son But seventy-eight, they said sorry, but we made a mistake Time for some fun, ooh ain't life grea-eat In tall gla** houses with ivory towers The beaches are gold and we'll never grow old And old gla** houses, ivory towers There fragile as dreams, but never what they see-eem You know, now-a-days, you go to town There's gla** all arou-ound And they're still building towers And they're buried deep in the grou-ou-ou-ou-ound A travesty, starin' at me-ee Old gla** houses, ivory towers They flash like a sun, from every one We live in gla** houses with ivory towers Protecting our gold and we're all growin' old And we're all growin' old