Ballad of a Salesman Who Sold Himself — текст песни (Kevin Ayers)

There was moonlight and laughter

That danced on the sands

And bloodstained pianos

Are played without hands



Such a promising music

Sweet whispers and dreams

From a travelling window,

The salesman who screamed.



Moonlight, saturday night

Its now or never

Oh play stormy weather,

For me, for me.



I lived in the flower shop

Called "love is so sweet!"

And I get all my kicks

From the customers feet.



Well, Im just a stranger,

None stranger than i.

My head in the quicksand

My feet in the sky.



I was carefully crazy

When playing the game.

cause business is business

And Im not to blame.



Climb on my back

Its a wet afternoon ;

A bottle of booze,

A bit of a tune to sing;

Goodbye, everything;

Goodbye, everything....