Christy Moore - Motherland lyrics

Where in hell can you go
Far from the things that you know
Far from this concrete sprawl that
Keeps crawling it's way
About a thousand 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 sleeve

Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me stay beside me don't go
My five and dime queen
Tell me what have you seen
The lust and the avarice
The bottomless 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 go

It's your happiness I want most of all and
For that I'd do anything at all
If you want the best of life
And the most of love
If there is anything I can do at all

Come on shotgun bride
What makes me envy your life
The faceless the nameless the innocent
The 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