Dedicated to the 51% About To Be Stripped Of Their 1st, 9th, 13th, and 14th Amendment Rights

[ancianita]

Big Country - In A Big Country

I've never seen you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through
Another season passes by you
I never took the smile away from anybody's face
And that's a desperate way to look
For someone who is still a child

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive, here we go

I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered
I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

So take that look out of here it doesn't fit you
Because it's happened doesn't mean you've been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor, come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted
I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
But you can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered, see ya

I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover's voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

[peppertree]

1. Repugs have already taken our 4th and 6th amendments - so it figures they'd come for the rest

Except, of course, their favorite: the 5th

[ancianita]

2. Yes, they did. And as you mention, they save the 5th for themselves.

The song's intent is to recognize great loss, yet stay alive. Which reminds me how the vastness of the world makes life itself precious. There is a truth and it's on our side.

[peppertree]

3. Beautiful. Thank you, Ancianita.

When life gets you down, good music really lightens the load.

Again, thank you!

[ancianita]

4. Thank you back, peppertree. Music, indeed, enspirits and comforts our hearts.

Music gives our busy egos and left brains a break.