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 ...