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’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