Joan Baez - Motherland

Where in 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
And 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 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,
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 and blameless and free,
What's that like to be?

Oh, 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

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

Don't you go