Motherland

Fmi Cmi

Where in hell can you go

far from the things that you know,

far from the sprawl of concrete

that keeps crawling its way

Fmi

about a thousand miles a day?

Cmi

Take one last look behind,

commit this to memory and mind.

Don’t miss this wasteland

this terrible place, when you leave

Fmi

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,

Fmi

don’t you go.

Fmi Cmi

Oh, my five & dime queen

tell me what have you seen?

The lust and the avarice

the bottomless, the cavernous greed

Fmi

is that what you see?

Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,

lullaby me to sleep.

Keep me safe, lie with me,

Emi

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.

Fmi Cmi

Now come on shot-gun bride,

what makes me envy your life

Faceless, nameless, innocent

blameless, and free,

Fmi

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,

Fmi

don’t you go.