First Man Lyrics - Singles - Tom Faulkner

There's a farmer into night school 

Playing on family sand 

There's a lowrider down in Espanyol 

And he's tearing up the government's land 

There's a string quartet recital 

They're playing to the wealthy ears 

There's a boy and his dog gone down by the river 

And they're shooting down empty beers 

So that's the way it goes 

Living in the land the first man once did roam 

So that's the way it goes 

Living in the land the first man once called home 

Well, there's a bigwig corporation 

They're mining down the mountainside 

There's a man making money by floating down a river 

And he's giving all the folks a ride 

There's this 15 dollar artist 

She's painting people in the square 

There's a guy building condos, everybody's angry 

And he says, Man, I really don't care 

So that's the way it goes 

Living in the land the first man once did roam 

So that's the way it goes 

Living in the land the first man once called home 

Now this first man's basic blessing 

Is just what this government gives 

But he'll tell you that his only real reservation 

Is really just where he lives 

Now this first man's slowly vanishing 

And too this land, they bred 

But let's make no mistake about it 

First man here was red 

So that's the way it goes 

Living in the land the first man once did roam 

So that's the way it goes 

Living in the land the first man once called home 

Yeah, that's the way it goes 

Living in the land the first man once called home 

Oh, that's the way it goes and goes and goes and goes 

Living in the land this first man, he thought he owned