Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Earth is Broken, artist - Tim Buckley. Album song Dream Letter, in the genre
Date of issue: 20.12.2004
Record label: Manifesto
Song language: English
The Earth is Broken |
Oh now my brother’s been taken away |
Gone are the old times when we used to say |
Oh a woman was younger she knew what to do |
Oh but I look around me, now that’s not so |
I’m lost on that open road no peace do I find |
Maybe the wind’ll blow a melody and ease my mind |
But soon love is broken, they’ll take you away |
Oh the wars they been growing as no relief |
And the old men who ruled them oh they’re just like thieves |
They rob from the sunshine, oh the air ain’t so clean |
Our rivers are dirty where once we could see |
A smile from your lady friend looking down |
Look at that river hey did you ever shiver |
Well the earth is broken there is no one to save |
I remember quite freely only yesterday |
Ah the letter that I read from you read this way |
Take care lonesome Timmy, ah don’t you start |
Thinking you’re the only one year that’s gone |
Out on your lonesome road hey lend a hand to your friend |
Yes he’s just as lonely and the wind keeps you cold |
Remember the rivers that once did flow clean |
Ah sometimes I wonder how this old world keeps spinning 'round |
All the old folks have gone west, Lord preparing to die |
All except for a few of us hangers on |
Living each day with trivial hearts |
We just stop once in a while cry over the news |
In some foreign far city your brother’s shot down |
Because there was a reason a gun had a hand |
And the old man killed youth, squeezed down its hope |
Now I’m just waiting brother waiting for the land |
Soon in my country there won’t be a friend |
Each one is trying so hard to defend |
That one one last heartbeat before he’s tugged away |
Lost in the mechanized efficient world logical skies |
Ah but no song was written on without a tear in your eyes |
Are we the last ones, the last ones to try |