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Ebenezer Walked
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Adam Selzer
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It was just a legend that the counting house was here
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That's what we told the protesters as the building was cleared
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And I didn't tell a person, as we hauled away the trash
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That I saw a worn down sign beneath the rubble dust and ash
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And if hadn't known better, I'd've thought it used to say
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"Marley and scrooge" before it faded away
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We can charge more ren on new flats than an old Victorian block
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So we hauled away the cobblestones where Ebenezer walked
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Kept up with the job, there was plenty left to do
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London's full of old things to replace with something new
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And so street by street I watched the old brick buildings fall
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Making way for car parks, concrete flats and shopping malls
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But late in the evenings through the constant rain
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I swore that I could hear the sound of someone rattling chains
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And meanwhile outside, I heard distant voices talk
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But there was no one to be seen out where Ebenezer walked
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Finally one night I just couldn't take it anymore
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And ran outside not looking at the knocker on the door
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There were ghosts in every alley, holding chains for me to see
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Marley looked just like his picture, said now, come with me
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And the lights in all the windows were like smears against the fog
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As he took me through the city where Ebenezer walked
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On the wings of the wind he flew me through the town
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Ghosts flew by beneath us, til finally we touched down
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In a newly empty neighborhood where we'd just cleared out a space
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And I begged him, "tell me, spirit, who haunts this lonely place?"
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I looked down at my hand and saw that I could see right through
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As the chains appeared he said "we've saved this one for you"
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What becomes of ghosts who have nowhere left to haunt ?
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We're invisible beside you where Ebenezer walked
Adam Selzer - I'll Be Around
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