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Track: Poverty Train
Artist: Laura Nyro
Album: Eli And The Thirteenth Confession

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Name: Laura Nyro
Spotify Genres: singer-songwriter, philly soul, pop soul
Followers: 75,953
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Biography

American songwriter, singer, and pianist. Born: 18 October 1947 in The Bronx, NYC, New York, USA. Died: 8 April 1997 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA (aged 49). Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010 and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Release: Laura Nyro - Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Year: 1968
Genres: Rock
Styles: Pop Rock

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LYRICS

last call for the poverty train
last call for the poverty train
It looks good and dirty

On Shiny light strip

and if you don't get beat

you got yourself a trip



You can see the walls roar

see your brains on the floor

become God

become cripple

become funky

and split

why was I born?



I just saw the Devil

and he's smilin' at me

I heard my bones cry

?Devil, why's it got to be??

Devil played with my brother

Devil drove my mother

Now the tears in the gutter

are floodin' the sea

why was I born?



Oh baby

It looks good and dirty

them shiny lights glow

a million night tramps

tricks and tracks

will come and go

You're starvin' today

but who cares anyway?

baby, it feels like I'm dyin'



Now

I swear there's somethin' better than

gettin' off on sweet cocaine

it feels so good

it feels so good

getting off the poverty train

mornin'