Story Behind The Song
Just imagining, one day, what it might be like to 'live there'.
Song Description
A person describes, from the point of view of a war zone, how it feels to live in a place tormented by violence, poverty and hypocrisy.
| Song Length |
4:05 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Pop - General |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Enraged, Worried |
Subject |
Justice, War |
| Similar Artists |
Tracy Chapman, Kate Bush |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1980 - 1989 |
| |
Lyrics
This side, that side
We've got to find a middle ground, to make it right
You turn us 'round, you burn us down
Start it up again, when the end's in sight.
You've made a battlefield out of my home
Take your soldiers back and leave us alone
We're not a country fully grown
You set a man up, you tear him down
We get cold, hard looks at the election scene
Bring in the old, tear down the new
But tell me - what are the people here going to eat?
You've made a famine ground, out of my home
Take your money plans and just leave us alone
We're not a country fully grown
I saw the fires burning, when they took my village down
I heard the bullets roaring ... I'm so tired of that sound
You play the fools, when you play with rules
And make your own division between wrong and right
No time for the scared, no time for the weak
No time for the family shot last night
You've made a battleground, out of my home
Take your weapons back and just leave us alone
We're not a country fully grown
We're not a country fully grown