She was riding on the airline leafing through their magazine They said, "We'll fly you to the homeland that you have never seen" Smiling tourists in the
I remember well when I was but a child of tender years The day that I discovered the catalog from Sears The people in the pictures they made me stop and
All my life Working at the factory The pay looked mighty good to me When my body was my own Doctor won't look me in the eye My youngest child asks why
The baby blinks her eyes as the sun falls from the sky She feels the stings of a thousand fires as the city around her dies Some sleep beneath the rubble
I remember the man Rising early in the morning Smelling of starch and aftershave Sometimes I would shave beside him With a plastic razor and a cardboard
High school daydreams come easy and free When you're a working woman whatcha gonna be? A senator, a surgeon, aim for the heights But the guidance office
You hear so many rumors sometimes you get confused But I read it in Time Magazine and I heard it on the news We'll see dramatic changes in the lifestyle
Brick and wood, mortar and plane Labor's love, a little faith You can see the structure taking form. Ancient tools, a new design Taking care, taking time
I guess it must say something That I was the last to know I never saw the signals flashing danger Falling out of love with me Was hard on you I know To
In nineteen thirty-who at a zoo in Los Angeles a polar bear named Larry performed for the crowd, they'd cheer aloud He'd go slipping and sliding, jumping
and sang him to sleep And talked to him as if he really heard And he grew with the sun and affection Though his body was spindly and small And a hundred
Ooh I can't get out of bed Let's stay at home instead I just want to play with you all day Good loving gives me a thrill But it don't pay the bills Somehow
I'm an old woman typing Old as the year, seventy-eight Hear what I say I was born in Laurel, Mississippi, I live in North Carolina today With my grandson
I pull out the choke, pump hard on the gas Oh, this wheezin' old bus is complaining. The Dungeness winter is blowing its last It's cold, but for once
I lost that pretty little gal of mine to Title Nine. I found her in the stands but I lost her at the finish line She was so soft and sweet But now I find
In the stillness of the alley waits a man with an open blade And he hurts the woman badly and within her plants his seed She can't shake the dirt and
CHORUS: It's been a long hard time It's gonna be a long steep climb But no one's gonna change our minds 'Bout what we gotta do And when the road gets
I have seen you in the morning diving into icy blue I have seen you rise and shiver till the sun has come to you You have seen me swimming naked where
