Scrapheap City

Written by: Ray Davies

Published by: Davray Music Ltd.

Chord file

Lyrics:

Sung by: Belle and The Floosies
(as Flash's empire is being dismantled piece by piece)

There ain't no beauty
And there ain't no style,
There's no quality
And there's no purity.
Honour's dead and buried
Because it's unnecessary.

Look at all the people,
Why they all look the same.
They're walking to the factory
In their cloth caps and trilbies.
They've got no style,
Ain't it a pity.

They're tearing old quality down
Without any pity,
Now they're coming to take me away
To Scrapheap City.
They say that good manners belong on a heap,
They say they're outdated and they're obsolete,
And now they're coming to take me away
To Scrapheap City.

There's no quality
And there ain't no style
Just miles and miles
Of Scrapheap piles.
There's no quality
And there's no purity.
They're digging up all of the flowers
Because they look pretty
And erecting identical concrete monstrosities.
They're killing off all of the animals too,
The only ones left are the ones in the zoo.
Now they're coming to take me away
To Scrapheap City.
Ain't it a pity,
Scrapheap City.

This song can be found on the following releases:

stereo mix, Ray Davies lead vocals, different recording from album version, recorded Mar 1973 at Morgan Studios, Willesden, London

stereo mix, recorded Jan-Mar 1974 at Konk Studios, Hornsey, London

stereo mix, by The Spivs, recorded 2000

---

KindaKinks.net

E-mail Dave Emlen