Elton John - The Scaffold

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In Orient where wise I was\nTo please the way I live\nCome give the beggar chance at hand\nHis life is on his lip\nThree score a thousand times\nWhere once in Amazon\nWhere Eldorado holds the key\nNo keeper holds my hand\nUnchain the gate of solitude\nThe ruler says you run\nRun hard unto the scaffold high\nYour chance to jump the gun\nOh how high the scaffold grows\nThe plant life of your widow\nIn black lace curtains brought you near\nFrom out the plate glass window\nThe Minotaur with bloody hands\nIs enraged by the sun\nCaged he by the corpses\nBrought forth by the dawn\nIn Orient is as I told\nThe buckshee hangman swears\nFor open crypts to silence\nNylon knots to sway by prayer\nIn Orient where wise I was\nTo please the way I live\nCome give the beggar chance at hand\nHis life is on his lip