The
Earth is Broken Oh
now my brother's been taken away
Gone are the old times when we used to say
A woman was younger she knew what to do
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 will 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, they're just like thieves
They
rob from the sunshine, 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
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 Sometimes
I wonder how this old world keeps spinning 'round
All the old folks have gone
west, 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 is 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 end
Soon in
my country there won't be a friend
Each one is trying so hard to defend
That
one last heartbeat before he's tugged away Lost
in the mechanized efficient world logical skies But
no song was written on
Without a tear in your eyes
Are we the last ones
The
last ones to try Tim
Buckley
Tim Buckley Music ASCAP Released
1990 Enigma Retro/Bizarre Records
“Dream Letter: Live in London 1968” Running
time 6:48
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