Native Land [2012 Remaster] lyrics

Stone the crows if you've done it again.

If I've told you once, told you a thousand times.

Sometimes I am so convinced

That we're casting pearl amongst the swine.

Don't ever let me hear you say

This is the life we folks must lead.

We shun the limelight, shun the glare

And the circus built on a bigot's creed.

Don't ever let me hear you say

This is the life we folks must lead.

We shun the limelight, shun the glare

And the circus built on a bigot's creed.

Heaven is a place I've heard ,

But we haven't been there yet, I fear.

We may have opened pearly gates,

But sometimes hell stills steals in here.

Don't ever let me hear you say

This is the life we folks must lead.

Do you think silver turns our locks?

What gold do you think paves our streets?

[Instrumental, harmonica featured]

You said we're in a different world now,

Where money and love go hand in hand.

But can't you see we share this town,

So why should we fight on our native land?

Don't ever let me hear you say

This is the life we folks must lead.

We shun the limelight, shun the glare

And the circus built on a bigot's creed.

Don't ever let me hear you say

This is the life we folks must lead.

Do you think silver turns our locks?

What gold do you think paves our streets?

Yeah!

Can't you see we share this town,

So why on earth should we tear it down?

Can't you see we share this town,

So why on earth must we tear it down?

Tearing it down

Tearing it down