Motherland

Song Motherland
Artist Christy Moore
Album Burning Times

Lyrics

[00:04.37] Where in hell can you go, far from the things that you know,
[00:13.29] Far from this concrete sprawl that keeps crawling it's way,
[00:21.03] About a thousand miles a day.
[00:27.67] Take one last look behind, commit this to memory and mind,
[00:36.28] Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place, when you leave,
[00:43.52] Keep your heart off your sleeve.
[00:49.24] Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep,
[00:58.16] Keep me safe, lie with me stay beside me don't go.
[01:08.71] My five and dime queen, tell me what have you seen,
[01:17.00] The lust and the avarice the bottomless cavernous greed,
[01:25.13] Is that what you see?
[01:28.22] Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep,
[01:37.09] Keep me safe, lie with me stay beside me don't go.
[01:46.42] Don't you go ...
[01:51.29] It's your happiness I want most of all
[02:00.26] and for that I'd do anything at all.
[02:06.28] If you want the best of life and the most of love,
[02:16.33] If there is anything I can do at all.
[02:23.87] Come on shotgun bride, what makes me envy your life,
[02:32.15] The faceless the nameless the innocent the blameless and free,
[02:39.80] What's that like to be?
[02:43.50] Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep,
[02:51.68] Keep me safe lie with me stay beside me don't go,
[03:01.00] Motherland cradle me, close my eyes lullaby me to sleep,
[03:09.80] Keep me safe lie with me stay beside me don't go,
[03:18.91] Don't you go ...