| "TO THE WALL" ALBUM LYRICS |
| Far Away and Hard to Catch Is there a dream lost inside your head Did you lose your number were you misled Did you work your hands right down to the bone and carried on your back a burden all your own Well you plant the seed and then pray for rain But there ain't nothin' but dust to blow across the plain Blood sweat and years and more put into this land; One Daddy and his before that wouldn't understand; that it's so Far away and hard to catch says a lot about the way the world is to treat him like that Come into sight and disappear just as fast It's so far away and hard to catch It's so far away and hard to catch There's a man stands in a long welfare line He don't look up and don't dare look behind Takes what they give and leaves a quick thank you sir; Slips it under his arm through a hole in his shirt Back down the avenues to some safe retreat Faces stare but pretend not to see He hides his reasons, he hides the truth One of the cracks and just fell right through Chrous The coal mines and factories, steel mills and farms; Carry the load on their rusted arms Two hundred years men been working them machines; Two hundred more seem unlikely to me But they wait their glory they reach to the sky While the young and old just watch the world pass by, and it's so Chorus |
| Carry on Today I read it in the paper And then I saw it on T.V. I know they don't want me to worry Might be better if I don't But I don't have too much else to do And there's no where to release Some day there're going to reach us all I feel them closing in on me Cover my eyes, cover my heart Somewhere someboly in the dark Say too hard and too long But going to try to carry on, carry on She stood outside on the corner I watched but she didn't stand too long I guess she had to meet her boyfriend Or maybe someone else like that Well I knew her kid from down on the playground He hangs out there with his friends They roll the dice and take the chances And when they play they play for keeps Chrous I got my hands in my pockets My friend they're wearing mighty thin How long have I been standing here I with I'd just move along I'd light a smoke if I had one And I'd like a drink of something warm And I'd like a fist full of money Can you imagine me with that Carry on, carry on Before this wall came up aroud me Before I ever knew too much I never asked about tomorrow It never mattered much to me Today the sun came up again And just like every other day I hate to always be the sad one But don't mind me I'll be on my way carry on, carry on, carry on, carry on |
| lyrics by: tommy john ehman |
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