The Earth Is Broken Lyrics - 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, and ease my mind 

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 

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A smile of 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 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 

Just stop once in a while, cry over the news 

In some foreign far city your brother's shot down 

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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 end 

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