lirik lagu the cost of living – pyrrhon
once we made our home in the trees
lived innocent, vicious, free
‘til our souls hung thick on the boughs
the rent went up, we got squeezed out
fanning out on empty russet plains
we scored channels into the clay
scheming to siphon the rivers and rains
longing for lushness and somewhere to stay
then bodies of martyrs swelled the headwaters
then dust bloomed where our lifesblood once guttered
then black rot hollowed out our crops and our daughters
then the land’s lords made their offer: bondage or slaughter
so it’s time to move house again
hauling our memories over the mountains
and seas, to some other benighted land
for sp*ce to subdue, a new life at a bargain
where we’ll take whatever we need
to live is to l*st; progeny demands greed
but by time’s cruel hand, we’re reborn again as lessees
on farms, in cities, in factories
the settings keep shifting, the gentry’s names change
but the tale and our role are always the same
tomorrow’s eviction: the price we’re born to pay
possession’s iron law, the timeless tenant’s way
and now the ground shifts under our feet
and our debts shadow us into our sleep
so that we never rest, we just slave for a seat
at the table of gold, as if we’re not the feast
like cattle we are butchered, like kings they will eat
for the landless and luckless are such easy meat
and the cost of our living will only increase
lirik lagu lainnya :
- kumpulan lirik lagu southern wire ends › lirik lagu black man in the snow – southern wire ends
- kumpulan lirik lagu dhelly yn › lirik lagu within sight – dhelly yn
- kumpulan lirik lagu michael guy bowman › lirik lagu mechanism – michael guy bowman
- kumpulan lirik lagu pavol hammel › lirik lagu slza – pavol hammel
- kumpulan lirik lagu lil pointer › lirik lagu like this – lil pointer
- kumpulan lirik lagu speedway sweden › lirik lagu balance – speedway (sweden)
- kumpulan lirik lagu bobbie gentry › lirik lagu refractions (live) – bobbie gentry
- kumpulan lirik lagu andrew jackson › lirik lagu lost in the rhythm – andrew jackson
- kumpulan lirik lagu kai cah › lirik lagu can we talk? – kai ca$h
- kumpulan lirik lagu bam staxkalot › lirik lagu wont be the same – bam staxkalot