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Artist: Eric Clapton
Canonical path: /eric-clapton/anyone-for-tennis
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Anyone For Tennis
Read Anyone For Tennis lyrics by Eric Clapton on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Anyone For Tennis
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Twice upon a time in the valley of the tears
An auctioneer is bidding for a box of fading years
And the elephants are dancing on the graves of squealing mice.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?
And the ice creams are all melting on the streets of bloody beer
While the beggars stain the pavements with flourescent Christmas cheer
And the Bentley-driving guru is putting up his price.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?
And the prophets in the boutiques give out messages of hope
With jingle bells and fairy tales and blind colliding scopes
And you can tell they're all the same underneath the pretty lies.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?
The yellow Buddhist monk is burning brightly at the zoo
You can bring a bowl of rice and then a glass of water too
And fate is setting up the chessboard while death rolls out the dice.
Anyone for tennis, wouldn't that be nice?
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Eric Clapton performs "Anyone For Tennis", and this lyric page sits inside the Eric Clapton catalog on LyroVerse.
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