Nick Drake - At the Chime of a City Clock Lyrics

Lyrics At the Chime of a City Clock - Nick Drake




A city freeze
Get on your knees
Pray for warmth and green paper.
A city drought
You're down and out
See your trousers don't taper.
Saddle up
Kick your feet
Ride the range of a London street
Travel to a local plane
Turn around and come back again.
And at the chime of a city clock
Put up your road block
Hang on to your crown.
For a stone in a tin can
Is wealth to the city man
Who leaves his armour down.
Stay indoors
Beneath the floors
Talk with neighbours only.
The games you play
Make people say
You're either weird or lonely.
A city star
Won't shine too far
On account of the way you are
And the beads
Around your face
Make you sure to fit back in place.
And at the beat of the city drum
See how your friends come in twos;
Or threes or more.
For the sound of a busy place
Is fine for a pretty face
Who knows what a face is for.
The city clown
Will soon fall down
Without a face to hide in.
And he will lose
If he won't choose
The one he may confide in.
Sonny boy
With smokes for sale
Went to ground with a face so pale
And never heard
About the change
Showed his hand and fell out of range.
In the light of a city square
Find out the face that's fair
Keep it by your side.
When the light of the city falls
You fly to the city walls
Take off with your bride.
But at the chime of a city clock
Put up your road block
Hang on to your crown.
For a stone in a tin can
Is wealth to the city man
Who leaves his armour down.



Writer(s): (gb 1) Nick Drake


Nick Drake - Digital Box Set
Album Digital Box Set
date of release
10-08-2010

1 Kegelstatt Trio For Clarinet, Viola And Piano
2 Time Has Told Me
3 River Man
4 Three Hours
5 Way To Blue
6 Day Is Done
7 ' Cello Song
8 Thoughts of Mary Jane
9 Man In a Shed
10 Fruit Tree
11 Saturday Sun
12 Introduction
13 Hazey Jane II
14 At the Chime of a City Clock
15 One of These Things First
16 Hazey Jane I
17 Bryter Layter
18 Fly
19 Poor Boy
20 Northern Sky
21 Sunday
22 Pink Moon
23 Place To Be
24 Road
25 Which Will
26 Horn
27 Things Behind the Sun
28 Know
29 Parasite
30 Free Ride
31 Harvest Breed
32 From the Morning
33 Rider On The Wheel
34 Magic (Orchestrated Version 2)
35 River Man - Cambridge Version
36 Joey
37 Mayfair - Cambridge Version
38 Hanging On a Star
39 Three Hours (Alternate Version)
40 Clothes of Sand
41 Voices
42 Time of No Reply (Orchestrated Version)
43 Black Eyed Dog
44 Tow the Line
45 Come Into the Garden (Introduction)
46 They're Leaving Me Behind
47 Time Piece
48 Poor Mum
49 Winter Is Gone
50 All My Trials
51 All My Trials
52 Strolling Down The Highway
53 Paddling In Rushmere
54 Cocaine Blues
55 Blossom
56 Been Smoking Too Long
57 Black Mountain Blues
58 Tomorrow Is A Long Time
59 If You Leave Me
60 Here Come the Blues
61 Sketch 1
62 Blues Run The Game
63 My Baby's So Sweet
64 Milk and Honey
65 Kimbie
66 Bird Flew By
67 Rain
68 Strange Meeting II
69 Day Is Done (Family Tree)
70 Come Into The Garden
71 Way To Blue (Family Tree)
72 Do You Ever Remember?




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