The Ocean Blue

Vanity Fair

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Walking strolling down
Down the gallery of memory
Pictures painted there
And it hangs on the wall
Calling out to me
Down the corridor to the left
Pilgrim walk away
Just walk away
Pilgrim beware of Vanity Fair
Pilgrim beware
Window shopping now
Window shopping down at Vanity Fair
Shall we go inside
Go inside and look around
Would you like to buy
The Red Man kindly asks me
Pilgrim walk away
Just walk away
Pilgrim beware of Vanity Fair
Pilgrim beware
Singing, calling out
Echoes of the truth somewhere
A sea of sinking souls
They can't really understand
Vain, it's calling vain
Watch them take another drink again
Pilgrim walk away
Just walk away
Pilgrim beware of Vanity Fair
Pilgrim beware

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by d118124544

3y ago

I believe this song might be about the book “Pilgrim’s Progress”, by John Bunyan; 1678, which was rewritten by Thackeray as “Vanity Fair”.

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by quamp

5y ago

A good warning about how love can go very wrong very quickly. The singer is warning against someone who is a gold digger and has other undesirable qualities in a lover.

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