The Earth is Broken

The Earth is Broken - Tim Buckley

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 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

Smile love 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

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 it's 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