《Borrowed Ground》歌词

[00:00:01] Borrowed Ground - John Schumann

[00:00:16] The wind out here's like a cross-cut saw

[00:00:19] The land is red and green

[00:00:23] The summer sun's hanging in a pale blue sky

[00:00:27] The air is sharp and clean

[00:00:31] There's a frozen moment in waving grain

[00:00:35] Food for a hungry world

[00:00:38] But we can't clothe ourselves with the check

[00:00:42] We can barely feed ourselves

[00:00:46] At night I lie awake and worry

[00:00:49] And the debts go round and round

[00:00:53] Furrows in my night time forehead

[00:00:57] And furrows on borrowed ground

[00:01:06] There's an old galv shed with a laughing lean

[00:01:10] It's kept the tractor dry

[00:01:14] I remember the day that we knocked it up

[00:01:18] With stringy bark and fencing wire

[00:01:21] The earthen floor's been beaten hard

[00:01:25] Where the rain hasn't cut a path

[00:01:29] I'm frightened to look

[00:01:30] Cause I'm beaten too

[00:01:33] And the mice run through the chaff

[00:01:37] And I lie on my bed staring into the red

[00:01:40] And the overdraft won't come down

[00:01:44] And it's hard work keeping your family together

[00:01:48] Living on borrowed ground

[00:01:57] I don't blame your brother son

[00:02:01] For moving into the town

[00:02:05] It's no place here for a bright young man

[00:02:09] Living on borrowed ground

[00:02:40] And I watch all the programs on the ABC

[00:02:44] After the sun's gone down

[00:02:48] Lucy Broad's talking on "Countrywide"

[00:02:52] Talking about borrowed ground

[00:03:01] We don't own this place anymore

[00:03:05] And I don't know how or why

[00:03:08] There's some money-men coming from Sydney

[00:03:11] Who tell me it's only a matter of time

[00:03:16] Well I hope they can read the seasons

[00:03:20] And they're not here just to muck around

[00:03:23] 'Cause they've still got to feed a nation

[00:03:27] They've got to feed them from borrowed ground

[00:03:36] They still live on a borrowed ground

[00:03:43] And the other part haven't found

[00:03:58] They got to feed them from borrowed ground

[00:04:13] And the other part haven't found