Homeland Lyrics - The Open Road - John Hiatt

Well, I jumped so high 

Knocked the table over 

Thought I saw a ghost 

Come out of the clover 

She lived in this house 

Forty odd years or so 

She was buried in the back 

With the English and the natives 

Slaughtered like sheep 

Women and babies 

Lot of blood and tears 

Three hundred years ago 

It's like they're caught up in the trees 

In the webs of spiders 

Spun out of leaves 

Ghostly riders 

Lookin' for a trail 

To find their way back home 

But there's nothing back there 

Or tomorrow 

No place they 

Can put their sorrow 

Heavy as death 

Cold as a broken stone 

And I call this place my homeland 

And I claim this land I own 

But it belongs to another people 

They possess it in their bones 

Well, I can hear them in the night 

Like a hundred televisions 

Hummin' down low 

Beneath the subdivisions 

All they really want 

Is if we can hear 'em now 

They been troublin' this plain 

Lookin' for attention 

Making crazy tracks 

They need an intervention 

All they really want 

Is to get back home somehow 

So build up a fire 

Say a little prayer 

And cook a little meat 

Pull 'em up a chair 

And offer them a plate 

Maybe we can all find peace 

You can't bury anything 

Men or nations 

Old memories, old vibrations 

The pain doesn't stop 

Just because the killin' ceased 

And I call this place my homeland 

And I claim this land I own 

It belongs to another people 

They possess it in their bones 

Well, I jumped so high 

Straight up off the bed sheet 

Nightmare sky 

Bloody with the red heat 

Started to shake 

'Cause I couldn't find my way back home 

Well, I landed in the ditch 

Landed in the gutter 

Landed in the arms 

Of my long lost mother 

Cryin' like a child 

While the Bayou Pierre groaned 

And I call this place my homeland 

And I love this land I own 

But it belongs to another people 

They possess it in their bones 

Yeah, I call this place my homeland 

And I claim this land I own 

But it belongs to another people 

They possess it in their bones 

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