Natalie Merchant – Motherland
from the album "Motherland" - 2001
Fm Cm
Where in hell can you go
C# G#
far from the things that you know,
C# G#
far from the sprawl of concrete
C# Eb
that keeps crawling its way
Fm
about a thousand miles a day?
Cm
Take one last look behind,
C# G#
commit this to memory and mind.
C#
Don’t miss this wasteland
G# Eb
this terrible place, when you leave
Fm
keep your heart off your sleeve.
G# Eb C#
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
G#
lullaby me to sleep.
C# G#
Keep me safe, lie with me,
Eb
stay beside me, don’t go,
Fm
don’t you go.
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Fm Cm
Oh, my five & dime queen
C# G#
tell me what have you seen?
C#
The lust and the avarice
G# Eb
the bottomless, the cavernous greed
Fm
is that what you see?
G# Eb C#
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
G#
lullaby me to sleep.
C# G#
Keep me safe, lie with me,
Em
stay beside me, don’t go.
C#
It’s your happiness,
G#
I want most of all
C# Bb Eb
and for that I’d do anything at all
Oh mercy me!
C#
If you want the best of it,
G#
or the most of all
C# Bb Eb
if there’s anything I can do at all.
Fm Cm
Now come on shot-gun bride,
C# G#
what makes me envy your life
C# G#
Faceless, nameless, innocent
Eb
blameless, and free,
Fm
what’s that like to be?
G# Eb C#
Motherland cradle me, close my eyes,
G#
lullaby me to sleep.
C# G#
Keep me safe, lie with me,
Eb
stay beside me, don’t go,
Fm
don’t you go.
I hope it's right
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