The Scaffold Lyrics - Empty Sky - Elton John

In Orient where wise I was 

To please the way I live 

Come give the beggar chance at hand 

His life is on his lip 

Three score a thousand times 

Where once in Amazon 

Where Eldorado holds the key 

No keeper holds my hand 

Unchain the gate of solitude 

The ruler says you run 

Run hard unto the scaffold high 

Your chance to jump the gun 

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Oh how high the scaffold grows 

The plant life of your widow 

In black lace curtains brought you near 

From out the plate glass window 

The Minotaur with bloody hands 

Is enraged by the sun 

Caged he by the corpses 

Brought forth by the dawn 

In Orient is as I told 

The buckshee hangman swears 

For open crypts to silence 

Nylon knots to sway by prayer 

In Orient where wise I was 

To please the way I live 

Come give the beggar chance at hand 

His life is on his lip