On The Flip Of A Coin - The Streets

From the point he gazedf

From the choice was made

But 'walk the cave or the shore'

The oily cave seemed to breathe

On him through gravestone jaws

His little hand grasped in

Anguish as he weighed up his coin

Somewhere a blue eyed girl in the

World is just waiting for a boy

Footprints trailed as if trod by

Slaves up to the grey cave floor

But not one graze from

Anything ever escaping this fort

So with coin on hand his joy came back

When ordered to take the shore

Why on earth' as he wandered the warmth 'am

I obeying this coin'

Turn your life on the flip of this coin

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid

And promise me you'll follow what it says

Whatever it says

Again walk within the trusted

Beach or swim the swell of the sea

And again the scarier alternative

Looked like certain death to he

He'd never learnt to skill of swimming

It never occurred to be very easy

And again he winced as he flipped

The coin and it twirled to his feet

How is this sane' he blamed

The coin now aiming for the waves

As he hesitated at the swirl of

Water as it raged and rained

Blue eyed girls were waiting

And he was drowning in the spray

Blue eyed girls he should have been

Acquainted with but for shouting and flailing

Turn your life on the flip of this coin

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid

And promise me you'll follow what it says

Whatever it says

He finally slugs it back to land

Eeling chewed up and foolish

Empties his pockets on

The sand spewing a pool each

Staggers back to his dad who's too cool to be

So he says 'why did you have

Me follow this stupid rule please'

To be honest little fellow I'll tell you

I was just as afraid as you

But you said you wanted to get

With people and places ever new

And I got a bit scared of the fate

Of my baby son's future

So I invented a reason to see

If you could ever make do

As soon as you appeared behind

That rock looking angry at me

I soon realised what a hell of

A man you've ended up being

I knew you'd worked out how to swim

Which I hadn't had in me

And I stand as a companion of you

Proudest a man has ever been

Turn your life on the flip of this coin

Turn upside a choice you'd normally avoid

And promise me you'll follow what it says

Whatever it says