Elton John - The Scaffold lyrics

Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album empty sky<br><br>In orient where wise I was<br>To please the way I live<br>Come give the beggar chance at hand<br>His life is on his lip<br><br>Three score a thousand times<br>Where once in amazon<br>Where eldorado holds the key<br>No keeper holds my hand<br><br>Unchain the gate of solitude<br>The ruler says you run<br>Run hard unto the scaffold high<br>Your chance to jump the gun<br><br>Oh how high the scaffold grows<br>The plant life of your widow<br>In black lace curtains brought you near<br>From out the plate glass window<br><br>The minotaur with bloody hands<br>Is enraged by the sun<br>Caged he by the corpses<br>Brought forth by the dawn<br><br>In orient is as I told<br>The buckshee hangman swears<br>For open crypts to silence<br>Nylon knots to sway by prayer<br><br>In orient where wise I was<br>To please the way I live<br>Come give the beggar chance at hand<br>His life is on his lip