Motherland - by Natalie Merchant, sung by Christy Moore

Where in hell can you go far from the things that you know
Far from this concrete sprawl that keeps crawling its way about a�hundredmillionthousand miles a day?
Take one last look behindbackahead, commit this to memory and mind.
Don't misskissbless this wasteland, this terrible place.
When you leave keep your�heardhartheart�off your sleeve.

Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me totootwo sleep.
Keep me safesavesay, lie with me, stay beside me, don't go.

My five & dime queen�show metell meanswer me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice, the bottomless, cavernous greed, is that what you seacsee?

Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,�lallabylullubylullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe, lie with me,�standstaysleep beside me, don't go, don�t you go.

It's your happiness I want most of all and for that I'd do anything at all!
If you want the best of�lifelivelives and the most of love, if there's�a thinganythingsomething I can do at all.

Come on shot gun bride what makes me�envy your life?
the faceless, the namelesshelplesshomeless, the innocent, the 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�nearnext tobeside me, don't go.
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep.
Keep me safe,�dieliecry with me, stay beside me, don't go.
Don't you go.

Don't you go.