The Home Front - Billy Bragg.mp3

The Home Front - Billy Bragg.mp3
[00:17.64]Father mows the...
[00:17.64]Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
[00:22.20]Grandma lays the table alone
[00:26.22]And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier
[00:31.02]In this Holy of Holies the Home
[00:35.55]And from the TV an unwatched voice
[00:37.59]Suggests the answer is to plant more trees
[00:42.90]The scrawl on the wall says what about the workers
[00:47.19]And the voice of the people says more salt please
[00:52.02]Mother shakes her head and reads aloud from the newspaper
[00:56.43]And Father puts another lock on the door
[01:00.66]And reflects upon the violent times that we are living in
[01:04.80]While chatting to the wife beater next door
[01:09.24]If paradise to you is cheap beer and overtime
[01:13.83]Home truths are easily missed
[01:17.94]Something that every football fan knows
[01:21.75]It only takes five fingers to form a fist
[01:27.75]And when it rains here, it rains so hard
[01:35.73]But never hard enough to wash away the sorrow
[01:39.39]I'll trade my love today for a greater love tomorrow
[01:43.74]The lonely child looks out and dreams of independence
[01:47.22]From this family life sentence
[01:52.23]Mother sees but does not read the peeling posters
[01:56.70]And can't believe that there's a world to be won
[02:00.90]But in the public schools and in the public houses
[02:09.00]The Battle of Britian goes on
[02:09.60]The constant promise of jam tomorrow
[02:13.26]Is the New Breeds litany and verse
[02:17.64]If it takes another war to fill the churches of England
[02:21.63]Then the world the meek inherit, what will it be worth
[02:26.67]Mother fights the tears and father, his sense of outrage
[02:31.02]And attempts to justify the sacrifice
[02:35.31]To pass their creed down to another generation
[02:39.93]Anything for the quite life
[02:47.16]In the Land of a Thousand Doses
[02:47.79]Where nostalgia is the opium of the age
[02:52.62]Our place in history is as clock watchers
[02:58.53]Old timers, window shoppers
[03:00.36]Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
[03:10.77][Incomprehensible]
[03:11.37]And where's that photograph of the unknown soldier
[03:12.87]In this Holy of Holies the Home
[03:13.50]Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
[03:19.20]Grandma [Incomprehensible]
[03:21.15]And where's that photograph of the unknown soldier
[03:25.02]In this Holy
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