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The landlady`s husband came up to town todaySince he left them both ten years ago to serve the ministryThe dark down road of his approach in constant rain was drenchedThe tenant`s boy said "How d`ya do" then swore in FrenchDid you teach this little child these curses on my soulYou should both be shut down in the coal-holeThat`s the way to treat a child who cries out in the nightAnd a woman who teaches wrong from right[Chorus:]He`s a battered old birdAnd he`s living up thereThere`s a place where time stands stillIf you keep taking those little pink pills"Hush your mouth you hypocrite"His humor cut her deepThe tight lipped leer of judgmentThat had seen her love desert her just like sleep"Filthy words on children`s lips are better, my dear spouseThen if I were to speak my mind about this house"[Chorus]On the first floor there are two old maidsEach one wishing that the other was afraidLetras de cancionesAnd next door to them is a man so mild`Til he chopped off the head of a visitor`s childHe danced upon the bonfireSwallowed sleeping pills like dreamsWith a bottle of sweet sherry that everything redeems[Chorus]And on the second floor is the Macintosh ManHe`s in his overcoats more than out of themAnd the typewriter`s rattling all through the nightHe`s burgundy for breakfast tightHe says "One day I`ll throw away all of my caresAnd it is always Christmas in a cupboard at the top of the stairs"[Chorus]"Well here`s a boy if ever there wasWho`s going to do big thingsThat`s what they all say and that`s how the trouble beginsI've seen them rise and fallBeen through their big deals and smallsHe`d better have a dream that goes beyond four walls"You think he should be sent outside playing with the trafficWhen pieces of him are already scattered in the attic From Letras Mania