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The Night I Heard Caruso Sing Lyrics
The highlands and the lowlands are the routes my father knows,
the holidays at Oban and at the towns around Montrose,
but even as he sleeps, they're loading bombs into the hills,
and the waters in the locks can run deep, but never still.
I've thought of having children, but I've gone and changed my mind.
It's hard enough to watch the news, let alone explain it to a child,
to cast your eye cross nature, over fields of rape and corn,
and tell him without flinching not to fear where he's been born.
Then someone sat me down last night, and I heard Caruso sing.
He's almost as good as Presley, and if I only do one thing,
I'll sing songs to my father, I'll sing songs to my child.
It's time to hold your loved ones while the chains are loose,
and the world runs wild.
But even as we speak, they're loading bombs onto a white train.
How can we afford to ever sleep, so sound the gate.
the holidays at Oban and at the towns around Montrose,
but even as he sleeps, they're loading bombs into the hills,
and the waters in the locks can run deep, but never still.
It's hard enough to watch the news, let alone explain it to a child,
to cast your eye cross nature, over fields of rape and corn,
and tell him without flinching not to fear where he's been born.
He's almost as good as Presley, and if I only do one thing,
I'll sing songs to my father, I'll sing songs to my child.
It's time to hold your loved ones while the chains are loose,
and the world runs wild.
How can we afford to ever sleep, so sound the gate.
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Submitted by
pvmeer On Jan 15, 2002
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What a world we leave to our children. It's cause for despair. But without hope there truly is only despair, so have faith that the future will be better.