The Early Days of a Better Nation-Oysterboys

[ti:The Early Days of a Better Nation] [ar:Oysterband] [al:The Oxford Girl and Other Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]The Early Days of a Better Nation - Oysterboys [00:00.02]Written by：Telfer/ Jones [00:00.04] [00:12.60]I fall asleep with the TV on [00:15.14] [00:15.66]Wake with an ache it's another week gone [00:18.81]And consider how my light was spent [00:21.96]Where it was that the real thing went [00:24.99]I asked a wise man for advice [00:28.21]Told him once and I told him twice [00:31.30] [00:33.51]My life is one long damage limitation [00:37.38] [00:40.22]He smacked me hard around the head [00:42.41] [00:43.00]Handed me a card that read [00:45.99]Work like you were [00:47.52]Living in the early days of a better nation [00:51.67] [00:52.41]Work like you were [00:53.75]Living in the early days of a better nation [00:57.68] [01:02.69]Play that tune again [01:04.19]I cried [01:04.94] [01:05.53]It's dead and gone the band replied [01:08.74]But as they slowly tried it through [01:11.15] [01:11.76]The hands remembered what they had to do [01:14.83]Give it poke and give it licks [01:17.91]The name of the tune is Laying The Bricks [01:21.42] [01:30.10]I Stood outside the Albert Hall [01:32.38] [01:32.96]Wept and wrote upon the wall [01:35.25] [01:35.92]Work like you were [01:37.31]Living in the early days of a better nation [01:41.61] [01:42.24]Work like you were [01:43.60]Living in the early days of a better nation [01:47.85] [02:11.13]We take the water to the tree [02:14.00]She says [02:14.60]Now do the same for me [02:17.16]It takes your sweat as well as art [02:19.65] [02:20.31]To dig a channel for the human heart [02:23.35]There is no garden of delight [02:26.53]Unless you w**d it day or night [02:29.17] [02:31.62]Don't leave your life a lifelong long vacation [02:35.72] [02:38.75]I hear her whisper when we meet [02:41.42]And when I crawl between the sheets [02:44.16]She says [02:44.62]Work like you were [02:46.12]Living in the early days of a better nation [02:49.97] [02:50.92]Work like you were [02:52.21]Living in the early days of a better nation [02:56.27] [02:57.20]Living in the early days of a better nation [03:04.17] [03:19.04]Living in the early days [03:20.99] [03:22.09]Living in the early days [03:24.25] [03:25.18]Living in the early days of a better nation [03:31.11]Were living in the early days of a better nation [03:35.13] [03:37.22]Were living in the early days of a better nation [03:41.37] [03:43.53]Were living in the early days of a better nation [03:47.49] [03:49.77]Were living in the early days of a better nation