《It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:01] It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version) - Nanci Griffith

[00:00:19] I am a backseat driver from America

[00:00:24] They drive to the left on falls road

[00:00:28] The man at the wheel's name is Shamus

[00:00:33] We pass a child on the corner he knows

[00:00:38] And Shamus says

[00:00:39] "Now what chance has that kid got "

[00:00:43] And I say from the back

[00:00:44] "I don't know"

[00:00:47] He says

[00:00:47] "There's barbed wire at all these exits

[00:00:51] And there ain't no place

[00:00:53] In Belfast for that kid to go"

[00:00:57] It's a hard life it's a hard life

[00:00:59] It's a very hard life

[00:01:02] It's a hard life wherever you go

[00:01:06] If we poison our children with hatred

[00:01:11] Then the hard life is all

[00:01:13] That they'll know

[00:01:16] And there ain't no place

[00:01:17] In Belfast for that kid to go

[00:01:25] A cafeteria line in Chicago

[00:01:31] The fat man in front of me

[00:01:35] Is calling black people trash to his children

[00:01:40] And he's the only trash here I see

[00:01:44] And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood

[00:01:49] In the night when the children should sleep

[00:01:54] But they'll slip to their window

[00:01:56] And they'll see him

[00:01:59] And they'll think

[00:02:00] That white hood's all they need

[00:02:04] It's a hard life it's a hard life

[00:02:06] It's a very hard life

[00:02:09] It's a hard life wherever you go

[00:02:12] If we poison our children with hatred

[00:02:17] Then the hard life is all

[00:02:20] That they'll know

[00:02:23] And there ain't no place

[00:02:24] In Chicago for those kids to go

[00:02:47] I was a child in the sixties

[00:02:52] Dreams could be held through TV

[00:02:57] With Disney and Cronkite and martin Luther

[00:03:01] And I believed I believed I believed

[00:03:06] Now I am the backstreet driver from America

[00:03:11] I am not at the wheel of control

[00:03:16] I am guilty I am war

[00:03:18] I am the root of all evil

[00:03:20] Lord I can't drive

[00:03:22] On the left side of the road

[00:03:24] It's a hard life it's a hard life

[00:03:28] It's a very hard life

[00:03:31] It's a hard life wherever you go

[00:03:33] If we poison our children with hatred

[00:03:40] Then the hard life is all that they'll know

[00:03:45] And there ain't no place

[00:03:46] In this world for these kids to go

[00:03:50] It's a hard life wherever you go