Laura Nyro - Buy and Sell lyrics

Cocaine and quiet beers

Sweet candy and caramel

Pass the time and dry the tears

On a street called buy and sell

Life turns like the endless sea

Death tolls like a vespar bell

Children laugh and lovers dream

On a street called buy and sell

Ladies dress Calico style, beware your heart

And the men walk shamelessly, aimlessly by

Cinders in the daylight, junkyards in the sky

Buy and sell

Sell my goods to buy my roof, my bed, my bed

Two pennies will buy a rose

Three pennies and who can tell

On the street that comes and goes

By the name of buy and sell

Buy and sell

Sell my goods to buy my roof, my bed