Name: Faces In The Street
Duration: P00H05M09S
Description: Title track from 2015 EP. The lyric is taken from a Henry Lawson poem of the same name.

Faces In The Street

from Faces In The Street by PJ Weston

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Title track from 2015 EP. The lyric is taken from a Henry Lawson poem of the same name.

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They lie, the men who tell us for reasons of their own,
That want is here a stranger, and that misery’s unknown;
For where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet
My window-sill is level with the faces in the street

And cause I have to sorrow, in a land so young and fair,
To see upon those faces stamped the marks of Want and Care;
I look in vain for traces of the fresh and fair and sweet
In sallow, sunken faces that are drifting through the street
Drifting by, drifting by,
To the beat of hungry feet;
While I sorrow for the owners of the faces in the street.

In hours before the dawning dims the starlight in the sky
The wan and weary faces first begin to trickle by,
Increasing as the moments hurry on with morning feet,
Till like a pallid river flow the faces in the street
Drifting by, drifting by, To the beat of hurried feet
Ah! I sorrow for the owners of those faces in the street.

And when the hours on lagging feet have slowly dragged away,
And sickly yellow gaslights rise to mock the going day,
Then flowing past my window like a tide in its retreat,
Again I see the pallid stream of faces in the street
Drifting by, drifting by,
To the beat of tired feet,
I can sorrow for the owners of those faces in the street.

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from Faces In The Street, released November 5, 2015
PJ Weston, Henry Lawson

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