Motherland

Where in the 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 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, 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