The Wheel

Album: The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016)
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  • A revolving wheel of metal chairs
    Hung on chains, squealing
    Four little children flying out
    A blind man sings in Arabic

    Hey little children don't disappear
    (I heard it was twenty-eigth thousand)
    Lost upon a revolving wheel
    (I heard it was twenty-eight thousand)

    Now you see them, now you don't
    Children vanish 'hind vehicle
    Now you see them, now you don't
    Faces, limbs, a bouncing skull

    Hey little children don't disappear
    (I heard it was twenty-eight thousand)
    All that's left after a year
    (I heard it was twenty-eight thousand)
    A faded face, the trace of an ear
    (I heard it was twenty-eight thousand)

    A tableau of the missing
    Tied to the government building
    Eight thousand sun-bleached photographs
    Faded with the roses

    Hey little children don't disappear
    (I heard it was twenty-eigth thousand)
    Lost upon a revolving wheel
    (I heard it was twenty-eight thousand)
    All that's left after a year
    (I heard it was twenty-eight thousand)
    A faded face, the trace of an ear
    (I heard it was twenty-eight thousand)

    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade out
    And watch them fade Writer/s: Polly Harvey
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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