Egyptian Horses

from Exiles by David Benjamin Blower

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I think I was a good man at first, but really I can't be sure
Because I know I been bad many years when I first realised I wasn't a good man anymore
Doing my duty for God and everybody, getting sick and tired of the score
My gut said you've got to look out for number one. No one else is going to pick you up off the floor
So we forgot about God and followed self interest. The more self interested man wanted more
Everything that wasn't mine I wanted to buy, and took loans on the things that I couldn't afford
Nobody wants to be a pawn in the chess set. Nobody wants to be a toy in the store
Every man a king and every woman his mistress. Every man a tyrant every woman his whore

O Egyptian Horses
Bring them north to me
O expensive watches
And the gold in my yellow teeth

Everything's for sale and everyone is open for business, and that's the law of the land
My house is big and my heart is empty. My soul's held together with elastic bands
All the women of the world were my oyster, picking them apart with my eyes and my hand
This place knows no brother or sister - only encounters for a woman and man
And children become an inconvenience... a by-product... flies in the jam
I lost count, lost sleep, lost interets. I even got rid of Sally and Dan in the fire

O Egyptian horses
Bring them from the south
Women of the nations
Bring them to my mouth

The economy will save us.
The economy is strong
The nations all around us
Got currencies of straw

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from Exiles, released October 22, 2012

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David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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