Crimes of Compassion

Silk Handkerchiefs 4:

Crimes of Compassion

written by Paul Haworth
performed by Alex Brenchley

Hard times
Broken rhymes
Crimes of compassion
See faces on the street: ashen
It's written across your faces
Packing heat but holding no aces
If I could just make you forget
Your lives of misery, woe, dysfunction, depression, solitude and debt
You have an ailment
Let me be your treatment
Let me entertain you
Life is more than a sales campaign where you
Pick up a bargain
Be it a real angora cardigan
But still you cannot pay
All we do is pay and pay!
Pay for love
Pay for luck
Pay for fun
Pay before it's even begun
And then it's over
Over and out
Left thinking - hold up - what was that all about?
"Is that all there is?" one inevitably asks
No jokes, no laughter
No happy ever after
Just...
CRISIS! CRISIS!
Unhappy accident, disaster
But could life pass us by any faster?
Yes, we live in hard times...
But these, my friends, are our times...

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Hard
• times
• credit
• crunch
• ABS
• Silk
• Handkerchiefs
• economy
• depression
• Alex
• Brenchley