Posted by sigismund on August 16, 2011, at 17:28:28
In reply to Better this world » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on August 14, 2011, at 14:35:02
>Have you heard of this?
No, I haven't.
Is it good?
Politics is so depressing. We have this abysmal level of debate here, and that being our worst thing, we should count ourselves lucky.
I wanted to give you a link to Natalie Merchant's 'Motheralnd' but I could not find the album version. I could find St Judas, which has the excellent Mavis Staples on it....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJ5S2wN8Z0Here are the lyrics to Motherland. It is so sad. I love it.
Where in hell can you go
Far from the things that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete
That keeps crawling its way
About 1,000 miles a day?Take one last look behind
Commit this to memory and mind
Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place
When you leave
Keep your heart off your sleeveMotherland cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don't go, don't you goO, my five & dime queen
Tell me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice
The bottomless, the cavernous greed
Is that what you see?Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don't goIt's your happiness I want most of all
And for that I'd do anything at all, o mercy me!
If you want the best of it or the most of all
If there's anything I can do at allNow come on shot gun bride
What makes me envy your life?
Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free,
What's that like to be?Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don't go, don't you go
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