Declan O'Rourke- Langley's Requiem

Lyrics:
Langley had a house on 5th Avenue
It was a brownstone block with a 3rd floor view
He saw the whole wide world through a magpie's eye
Took home a million things you would walk right by
Langley had a house on 5th Avenue
His brother Homer was blind and paralyzed
A hundred oranges a week would bring back his sight
Through the bundles and the boxes that were stacked as deep
As the love between two brothers Langley watched his keep
His brother Homer was blind and paralyzed
They withdrew from the world when their parents died
And when Homer got sick Langley only came out at night
To sift and forage through the garbage
For food and water
Things to salvage
Umbrellas and an old x-ray machine
A dozen grand pianos and a rusty spring
A hundred and eleven tons of other things
Soon the brothers were the talk of the neighborhood
People said they had a palace that was filled with gold
In the spring of '47 the police came out
To check up on an anonymous tip they got
Soon the brothers were the talk of the neighborhood
It took them 10 days to find Langley's body there
Caught in a booby trap that he had engineered
'Neath 30 years of daily papers and a leaking roof
Crawling through a maze of tunnels he made prowler proof
To protect him and his brother from their greatest fears
Among the rubbish and the relics he had saved for years
And just 10 feet away from Homer slumped down in the chair
It took them 10 days to get to Langley's body there

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This is a right jam

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Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen kind of vibe, I love it.