Motherland-Joan Baez

[00:11.25]Where in the hell can you go far from the things that you know [00:21.78]Far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling its way about 1,000 miles a day? [00:37.05]Take one last look behind, commit this to memory and mind. [00:46.68]Don't miss this wasteland, this terrible place. [00:51.48]When you leave keep your heart off your sleeve. [01:01.89]Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep. [01:11.82]Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go. [01:22.50]Don't you go. [01:28.86]Oh, my five & dime queen tell me what have you seen? [01:38.25]The lust and the avarice, the bottomless, cavernous greed, is that what you see? [01:48.66]Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep. [02:00.72]Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go. [02:11.28]It's your happiness I want most of all and for that I'd do anything at all, oh mercy me! [02:29.25]If you want the best of it or the most of all, if there's anything I can do at all. [02:42.45]Now come on shot gun bride what makes me envy your life? [03:24.09]Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free, what's that like to be? [03:33.66]Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep. [03:49.20]Keep me safe, lie with me, stay beside me don't go. [04:15.78]Don't go.