Sin City

by Billy Bragg

From the album: Talking With the Taxman About Poetry

Track 13 of 22 on Talking With the Taxman About Poetry (1986).

Duration: 3:34

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Lyrics for Sin City

This old town is filled with sin, it will swallow you in If you've got some money to burn, take it home right away You've got three years to pay, but Satan is waiting his turn This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house It seems like this whole town's insane On the thirty first floor, a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burnin' rain The scientists say, it will all wash away But we don't believe any more, so we got our recruits And our green Mohair suits, so please show your I.D. at the door This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house It seems like this whole town's insane On the thirty first floor, a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burnin' rain A friend came around, tried to clean up this town And his ideas made some people mad But he trusted his crowd, so he spoke right out loud And they lost the best friend they had This old earthquake's gonna leave me in the poor house It seems like this whole town's insane On the thirty first floor, a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burnin' rain On the thirty first floor, a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burnin' rain

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  2. Train Train
  3. The Marriage
  4. Ideology
  5. Levi Stubbs' Tears
  6. Honey, I'm a Big Boy Now
  7. There Is Power in a Union
  8. Help Save the Youth of America
  9. Wishing the Days Away
  10. The Passion
  11. The Warmest Room
  12. The Home Front
  13. Sin City
  14. Deportees
  15. There Is Power in a Union - Instrumental
  16. The Tracks of My Tears
  17. Wishing the Days Away - Alternative Version
  18. The Clashing of Ideologies - Alternative Version
  19. Greetings to the New Brunette - Demo
  20. A Nurse's Life Is Full of Woe
  21. Only Bad Signs
  22. Hold the Fort