Greenwood-Peter Yarrow

[ti:Greenwood] [ar:Peter Yarrow] [al:The Solo Recordings (1971 - 1972)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.42]Greenwood - Peter Yarrow [00:00.58] [00:06.05]I've seen a thousand people kneel in silence [00:10.64] [00:12.14]I've seen them face the rifles with their songs [00:17.11] [00:18.30]I always thought that we could end the killing [00:23.22] [00:24.51]But now I live in fear that I was wrong [00:30.13] [00:30.84]The killer and the cynic waltz together [00:34.99] [00:36.74]Their eyes are turned into their skulls [00:41.90] [00:42.73]They do not feel the bullets in thier bodies [00:48.01] [00:49.09]They do not hear the dolphins nor the gulls [00:55.67] [00:57.96]If we do these things in the greenwood [01:04.82] [01:05.80]What will happen in the dry [01:13.76] [01:16.81]If we don't stop there'll come a time when women [01:21.00] [01:22.88]With barren wombs will bitterly rejoice [01:26.92] [01:28.96]With breasts that dry and shreble with no promise [01:33.41] [01:35.43]Gladly they'll not suckle one more life [01:40.74] [01:41.73]Is this then the whimper and the ending [01:46.48] [01:47.67]The impotence of people raised on fear [01:52.26] [01:53.46]A fear to blinds the sense of common oneness [01:57.48] [01:59.62]That common love and life and death are here [02:07.51] [02:08.55]If we do these things in the greenwood [02:15.16] [02:16.04]What will happen in the dry [02:23.11] [02:27.02]Will no one light the candle in the darkness [02:31.78] [02:33.16]Will no one be my guide not let me fall [02:37.35] [02:39.02]I've lost the sense that tells me where the path is [02:43.85] [02:45.08]I feel the chill of winter in my soul [02:50.36] [02:51.16]There's no way I can say the words more plainly [02:55.55] [02:57.18]There's no one left to point at anymore [03:01.48] [03:03.15]It's you and me and we must make the choice now [03:08.00] [03:09.23]And not destroy this life we're living for [03:14.71] [03:18.06]If we do these things in the greenwood [03:24.84] [03:25.79]What will happen in the dry