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Deborah Conway & Willy Zygier - "The Writing's On The Wall" (The Music Show 2013)
Transcript
00:00Thank you for listening.
00:30Thank you for listening.
01:00Two certainties long gone
01:04And the writing's on the wall
01:09Sold my soul today
01:18Got a pocket full of change
01:22Almost what it's worth
01:27On current currency exchange
01:31My prayer went out to God
01:35Where's my love, my fame, my talent
01:41That should come from up above
01:44All I get is writing on the wall
01:48guitar solo
01:55I started getting cold
02:21I can see my breath like smoke
02:26It reminds me of New York
02:30When you used to love me back
02:34And we'd walk and talk for hours
02:39Through those graffiti streets
02:43And the giant holes
02:45The once-worn trade house
02:48You never saw the writing on the wall
02:52I am numbered, I am weighed
02:56I am found to be one
02:59In the balance I am laid
03:02And insensitive to all the people's pain
03:06guitar solo
03:07guitar solo
03:09guitar solo
03:11Back in 6 BC
03:34Back in 6 BC
03:38There was a conqueror's feast
03:43Where Belshazzar held court
03:47Amongst 1,000 lords
03:52They drank from stolen cups
03:56Toasting the false gods
04:02Until their disembodied call
04:04Put the writing on the wall
04:09You thought he had it all
04:13And just pride before the fall
04:17The writing's on the wall
04:47That's the opening track
04:48From Stories of Ghosts
04:50Which is the new album
04:51From Debra Conway and Willie Zigger
04:53And they were doing it just for us
04:55On the music show
04:56Debra, Willie
04:58Thank you very much indeed
04:59Pleasure
05:00And they were doing it as a

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