[ti:Circle Of Steel]
[ar:Gordon Lightfoot]
[al:Sundown]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot
[00:17.85]Rows of lights in a circle of steel
[00:21.31]Where you place your bets on a great big wheel
[00:26.66]High windows flickerin' down through the snow
[00:32.07]A time you know
[00:34.14]Sights and sounds of the people goin' round
[00:37.53]Everybody's in step with the season
[00:44.17]A child is born to a welfare case
[00:47.73]Where the rats run
[00:49.27]Around like they own the place
[00:53.31]The room is chilly
[00:54.90]The building is old
[00:58.62]That's how it goes
[01:00.68]The doctors found on his welfare rounds
[01:04.07]And he comes and he leaves on the double
[01:10.63]Deck the Halls was the song they played
[01:14.35]In the flat next door where they shout all day
[01:19.46]She tips her gin bottle back till it's gone
[01:24.95]The child is strong
[01:26.91]A week a day they will take it away
[01:30.50]For they know about all her bad habits
[01:43.52]Christmas dawns and the snow lets up
[01:46.87]And the sun hits the handle of her heirloom cup
[01:52.09]She hides her face in her hands for a while
[01:57.53]Says Look here child
[01:59.68]Your fathers pride was his means to provide
[02:03.14]And he's servin' three years for that reason
[02:09.94]Rows of lights in a circle of steel
[02:13.28]Where you place your bets on a great big wheel
[02:18.69]High windows flickerin' down through the snow
[02:24.20]A time you know
[02:26.12]Sights and sounds of the people goin' round
[02:29.58]Everybody's in step with the season