Buy and Sell - Suzanne Vega

Cocaine and quiet beers

Sweet candy and caramel

Pass the time and dry the tears

On a street called buy and sell

Life turns like the endless sea

Death tolls like a vesper bell

Children laugh and lovers dream

On a street called buy and sell

Ladies dress calico style

Beware your heart

When they smile

And their men walk shamelessly

Aimlessly by

Cinders in the daylight

Junkyards in the sky

Buy and sell

Sell my goods to buy my roof

My bed, my bed

Two pennies will buy a rose

Three pennies and who can tell?

On a street that comes and goes

By the name of buy and sell