Tim Buckley - The Earth Is Broken lyrics

Oh now my brother's been taken away Gone are the old times when we used to say Oh a woman was younger she knew what to do Oh but I look around me, now that's not so I'm lost on that open road no peace do I find Maybe the wind'll blow a melody and ease my mind But soon love is broken, they'll take you away Oh the wars they been growing as no relief And the old men who ruled them oh they're just like thieves They rob from the sunshine, oh the air ain't so clean Our rivers are dirty where once we could see A smile from your lady friend looking down Look at that river hey did you ever shiver Well the earth is broken there is no one to save I remember quite freely only yesterday Ah the letter that I read from you read this way Take care lonesome Timmy, ah don't you start Thinking you're the only one year that's gone Out on your lonesome road hey lend a hand to your friend Yes he's just as lonely and the wind keeps you cold Remember the rivers that once did flow clean Ah sometimes I wonder how this old world keeps spinning 'round All the old folks have gone west, Lord preparing to die All except for a few of us hangers on Living each day with trivial hearts We just stop once in a while cry over the news In some foreign far city your brother's shot down Because there was a reason a gun had a hand And the old man k**ed youth, squeezed down its hope Now I'm just waiting brother waiting for the land Soon in my country there won't be a friend Each one is trying so hard to defend That one one last heartbeat before he's tugged away Lost in the mechanized efficient world logical skies Ah but no song was written on without a tear in your eyes Are we the last ones, the last ones to try