are we all so alone here All we need is a little more hope, a little more joy All we need is a little more light, a little less weight, a little more
Mystery and wonder Messy hearts made of thunder Somewhere there's a soldier Sleeping in a field Somewhere there's a mother a mother a mother a mother a mother a
We all got born so afraid And still search for words To describe that pain And cling to each other Like pigeons in the rain And nuzzle over feathered
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It will not be a tender fire Upon your postcard mountains No golden children Will write hymns about The slow defeat of your reckless destiny Bullets
Canada oh canada i never been your son You're a genteel rent boy Choking on your tongue And your bankers' vain plazas never nurtured no-one And concrete
We got desperate Waiting for our cheques to come I got drunk, you got high You would not raise your eyes We got desperate Waiting for our cheques
Sisters and brothers, We have surely lost our way. In strip malls full of cancer, And a pathetic rain. And lover, sweet lover Please don't discipline
Babylon was built on fire And the bones of useless machines It hurt to breathe You fell away from me Packs of helicopters divide Across a crowded sky
On silver mount zion All buried in ruins We was dancing the hora Until we vomited blood Spinning like crazy Shoshana was jonesing The towers had
