Joan Baez - Motherland lyrics

Where in the hell can you go far
From the things that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete that
Keeps crawling it's 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 sleeve

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
Oh, my five & 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
Oh mercy me! If you want the best of it
Or the most of all
If there's anything I can do at all

Now 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 go