This Land-Jim Page

[ti:This Land] [ar:Jim Page] [al:Gettin' Squeezed Live And Then Some...] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Land (这片土地) - Jim Page [00:19.29]Come gather around me [00:20.44] [00:21.45]Hear my sad story [00:22.51] [00:23.60]I know you think you've heard someone sing it before me [00:26.82] [00:27.94]But it's an old song [00:29.27] [00:30.08]I had to change it [00:31.26] [00:33.38]Times ain't what they used to be [00:35.11] [00:36.55]As I was walking [00:37.52] [00:38.68]That super highway [00:39.56] [00:40.86]Below the gray haze [00:42.13] [00:43.04]And city skyway [00:44.23] [00:45.19]I was arrested for hitchhiking of the freeway [00:48.34] [00:50.52]They said it don't belong to me [00:52.24] [00:53.93]It ain't my land [00:54.98] [00:55.96]And it ain't your land [00:57.11] [00:58.09]Could be a rich land [00:59.23] [01:00.19]But it's a poor land [01:01.41] [01:02.35]'Cause of the few that hold it in their tight gripped hands [01:06.72]So that [01:07.23]It don't belong to you or me [01:09.72] [01:10.93]When I was younger [01:12.00] [01:12.98]And in my schooling [01:14.04] [01:15.08]I learned and followed [01:16.32] [01:17.11]By all the rulings [01:18.38] [01:19.50]I never dreamed that they were only fooling [01:22.71] [01:24.95]How could my teachers lie to me [01:26.62] [01:28.14]But as time passed [01:29.38] [01:30.27]And I grew older [01:31.32] [01:32.30]And the world around me [01:33.73] [01:34.47]Got a little colder [01:35.80] [01:36.74]Well and a voice came calling at my shoulder [01:39.90] [01:41.52]Said it don't belong to you or me [01:44.08] [01:45.46]It ain't my land [01:47.47]And it ain't your land [01:48.65] [01:49.60]Could be a rich land [01:50.76] [01:51.57]But it's a poor land [01:52.92] [01:53.80]'Cause of the few that hold it in their tight gripped hands [01:58.26]So that [01:58.75]It don't belong to you or me [02:01.25] [02:43.06]From the boardrooms [02:44.06] [02:44.86]Of corporations [02:45.96] [02:47.02]To the side roads of desperate situations [02:50.02] [02:51.10]It is a sad and [02:52.83]Dis united nation [02:54.11] [02:55.50]All the way from sea to shining sea [02:58.33] [02:59.58]From the urban war zones [03:00.81] [03:01.65]Of the busted street lights [03:02.90] [03:03.73]To the toxic wastelands [03:04.86] [03:05.84]Of Nevada test sites [03:07.07] [03:07.93]From the open strip mines [03:09.08] [03:09.97]To the clearcut forests [03:11.01] [03:13.16]Oh it's a sad sight to see [03:14.97] [03:16.30]I see the downsize [03:17.41] [03:18.39]I see the lay offs [03:19.24] [03:20.49]The corporate welfare politicians pay offs [03:23.93] [03:24.72]I see the bread lines that never make the headlines [03:27.82] [03:29.35]'Cause they're not so entertaining on tee vee [03:32.00] [03:33.02]When they can reduce you [03:34.28] [03:35.11]To just a number [03:36.18] [03:37.21]When they can knock you down and plough you under [03:40.35] [03:41.43]And when the only thing that maters is the dollar [03:44.54] [03:45.77]Then you know it don't belong to you or me [03:48.56] [03:49.98]It ain't my land [03:50.94] [03:51.89]And it ain't your land [03:53.09] [03:53.94]Could be a rich land [03:55.16] [03:56.00]But it's a poor land [03:57.24] [03:58.11]'Cause of the few that hold it in their tight gripped hand [04:02.28]So that [04:02.78]It don't belong to you or me [04:05.22] [04:06.45]There was a time when [04:07.53] [04:08.52]This song was greater [04:09.50] [04:10.65]But that was then [04:11.63] [04:12.76]And this is later [04:13.64] [04:14.84]And there's a hole in my heart just like a crater [04:17.86] [04:19.00]And they say it's gonna be the death of me [04:21.70] [04:23.18]Let's take this song back [04:24.43] [04:25.22]Let's take this country [04:26.20] [04:27.33]Take back our future [04:28.21] [04:29.32]It's our duty [04:30.26] [04:31.52]Let's stand up tall so everyone can see [04:34.99]Then this land will belong to you and me [04:38.75] [04:39.68]And will be your land [04:41.12] [04:41.80]And will be my land [04:43.04] [04:43.78]From California [04:44.79] [04:45.82]To the New York island [04:47.22] [04:48.00]From the redwood forest [04:49.25] [04:49.96]To the gulf stream waters [04:51.56]This land will belong to you and me