It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version)-Nanci Griffith

[ti:It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version)] [ar:Nanci Griffith] [al:From A Distance: The Very Best Of Nanci Griffith] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go (Album Version) - Nanci Griffith [00:19.24]I am a backseat driver from America [00:22.60] [00:24.35]They drive to the left on falls road [00:27.20] [00:28.83]The man at the wheel's name is Shamus [00:32.03] [00:33.57]We pass a child on the corner he knows [00:36.54] [00:38.66]And Shamus says "Now what chance has that kid got " [00:42.35] [00:43.08]And I say from the back "I don't know" [00:45.97] [00:47.77]He says "There's barbed wire at all these exits [00:51.03] [00:52.46]And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go" [00:55.90] [00:57.24]It's a hard life it's a hard life [00:59.82]It's a very hard life [01:01.51] [01:02.42]It's a hard life wherever you go [01:04.61] [01:06.75]If we poison our children with hatred [01:09.87] [01:11.54]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [01:14.40] [01:16.18]And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid to go [01:19.52] [01:25.90]A cafeteria line in Chicago [01:28.99] [01:30.88]The fat man in front of me [01:33.73] [01:35.35]Is calling black people trash to his children [01:38.51] [01:40.35]And he's the only trash here I see [01:43.11] [01:44.98]And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood [01:48.56] [01:49.89]In the night when the children should sleep [01:52.60] [01:54.71]But they'll slip to their window and they'll see him [01:58.01] [01:59.30]And they'll think that white hood's all they need [02:02.71] [02:04.03]It's a hard life it's a hard life [02:06.24] [02:06.81]It's a very hard life [02:08.40] [02:09.40]It's a hard life wherever you go [02:11.56] [02:13.70]If we poison our children with hatred [02:17.48] [02:18.52]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [02:21.12] [02:23.17]And there ain't no place in Chicago for those kids to go [02:26.67] [02:47.65]I was a child in the sixties [02:50.60] [02:52.36]Dreams could be held through TV [02:55.11] [02:57.00]With Disney and Cronkite and martin Luther [03:00.62] [03:01.49]And I believed I believed I believed [03:03.64] [03:06.28]Now I am the backstreet driver from America [03:09.79] [03:11.38]I am not at the wheel of control [03:14.14] [03:16.08]I am guilty I am war I am the root of all evil [03:20.09] [03:20.68]Lord I can't drive on the left side of the road [03:23.85] [03:25.75]It's a hard life it's a hard life [03:28.21]It's a very hard life [03:30.13] [03:30.92]It's a hard life wherever you go [03:33.28] [03:35.47]If we poison our children with hatred [03:38.63] [03:40.45]Then the hard life is all that they'll know [03:43.10] [03:45.12]And there ain't no place in this world for these kids to go [03:48.19] [03:49.88]It's a hard life wherever you go