Escarpment Blues Lyrics - I'm A Mountain - Sarah Harmer

If they blow a hole in my backyard 

Everyone is gonna run away 

The creeks won't flow to the Great Lake below 

Will the water in the wells still be okay? 

We'll need to build some new apartments 

And I know we're gonna have to fix the roads 

But if we blow a hole in the escarpment 

The wild ones won't have anywhere to go 

If they blow a hole in the backbone 

The one that runs cross the muscles of the land 

We might get a load of stone for the road 

But I don't know how much longer we can stand 

We'll keep driving on the Blind Line 

If we don't know where we want to go 

Even knowledge that's sound can get watered down 

Truth can get sucked out the car window 

We're two thirds water 

What do we really need? 

But sun, showers 

Soil and seed 

We're two thirds water 

The aquifers provide 

Deep down in the rock 

There's a pearl inside 

If they blow a hole in the backbone 

The one that runs across the muscles of the land 

We might get a load of stone for the road 

But I don't know how much longer we can stand