Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
Canonical path: /rufus-wainwright/london
Related lyric paths: 6
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London
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London
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I wander through each chartered streets,
Near where the chartered Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe
In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear
How the chimney-sweeper's cry
Every blackening church appals,
And the hapless soldier's sigh
Runs in blood down palace-walls
But most, through midnight streets I hear
How the youthful harlot's curse
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse
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Rufus Wainwright performs "London", and this lyric page sits inside the Rufus Wainwright catalog on LyroVerse.
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