Posted by floatingbridge on August 17, 2011, at 11:43:09
In reply to Re: Better this world » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on August 16, 2011, at 17:28:28
Sigi, the link won't open. But I did listen to
Ms. Mavis. Thank you for the introduction. I liked this one:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZmZ1Pt6C0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
St.Judas is a Merchant album title? The lyrics are beyond comment....
Off to find motherland....
Are you familiar with 'oh superman' by Laurie Anderson? Completely unrelated except in my mind.
I have always found this song very American, very sad.
> >Have you heard of this?
>
> No, I haven't.
>
> Is it good?
>
> Politics is so depressing. We have this abysmal level of debate here, and that being our worst thing, we should count ourselves lucky.
>
> I wanted to give you a link to Natalie Merchant's 'Motheralnd' but I could not find the album version. I could find St Judas, which has the excellent Mavis Staples on it....
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJ5S2wN8Z0
>
> Here are the lyrics to Motherland. It is so sad. I love it.
>
> Where in hell can you go
> Far from the things that you know
> Far from the sprawl of concrete
> That keeps crawling its way
> About 1,000 miles a day?
>
> Take one last look behind
> Commit this to memory and mind
> 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
>
> O, my five & dime queen
> Tell me what have you seen?
> The lust and the avarice
> The bottomless, the 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, o 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, blameless and free,
> 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, don't you go
>
>
I dig a pony.
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