Joan Baez - Stones in the Road | Текст песни

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When we were young, we pledged allegiance every morning of our lives
The classroom rang with children's voices under teacher's watchful eye
We learned about the world around us at our desks and at dinnertime
Reminded of the starving children,
we cleaned our plates with guilty minds
And the stones in the road played like marbles in the dust
Until a voice called for us to make our way back home
Stones in the road

When I was ten, my father held me
on his shoulders above the crowd
To see a train draped in mourning
pass slowly through our town
His widow kneeled with all her children
at the sacred burial ground
And the TV glowed that long hot summer with all the cities burning down

Stones in the road flew out from our bicycle tires
Worlds removed from all those fires as we raced each other home
Stones in the road

And now we drink our coffee on the run
and climb that ladder rung by rung
We are the daughters and the sons
and here's the line that's missing...

The starving children have been replaced by souls out on the street
We give a dollar when we pass and hope our eyes don't meet
We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite
We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt

And the stones in the road fly out from beneath our wheels
Another day, another deal, before we get back home
Stones in the road leave a mark from whence they came
A thousand points of light or shame, baby, I don't know
Stones in the road

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