Peter Yarrow - Greenwood Lyrics

Lyrics Greenwood - Peter Yarrow



I've seen a thousand people kneel in silence
I've seen them face the rifles with their songs
I always thought that we could end the killing
But now I live in fear that I was wrong
The killer and the cynic waltz together
Their eyes are turned into their skulls
They do not feel the bullets in the bodies
They do not hear the dolphins or the gulls
If we do these things in the greenwood
What will happen in the dry?
If we don't stop there'll come a time when women
With barren wombs will bitterly rejoice
With breasts that dry and shrivel with no promise
Gladly they'll not suckle one more life
Is this then the whimper and the ending?
The impotence of people raised on fear
A fear to blind the sense of common oneness
That common love and life or death are here
If we do these things in the greenwood
What will happen in the dry?
Will no one light the candle in the darkness
Will no one be my guide, not let me fall
I've lost the sense that tells me where the path is
I feel the chill of winter in my soul
There's no way I can say the words more plainly
There's no one left to point at anymore
It's you and me and we must make the choice now
And not destroy this life we're living for
If we do these things in the greenwood
What will happen in the dry?



Writer(s): Peter Yarrow


Peter Yarrow - The Solo Recordings (1971-1972)
Album The Solo Recordings (1971-1972)
date of release
18-11-2008

1 River Of Jordan
2 Mary Beth
3 Goodbye Josh
4 Take Off Your Mask
5 Wings of Time
6 Don't Ever Take Away My Freedom
7 Side Road
8 Tall Pine Trees
9 Greenwood
10 Beautiful City
11 Plato's Song
12 Weave Me The Sunshine
13 Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues
14 Been on the Road Too Long
15 Hey Sad Sack
16 Wedding Song (There Is Love)
17 Meanings Will Change
18 Give a Damn
19 Sebastian
20 Lucy
21 Ju Les Ver Negre En Che Ese [Ed's Tune]
22 Tiger
23 Tender Hands
24 John Henry Bosworth
25 The Song Is Love
26 I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado
27 Children One and All
28 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
29 I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)
30 Erika with the Windy Yellow Hair
31 Rhymes and Reasons
32 Follow Me
33 On the Path of Glory (La Colline au Whisky)
34 Circus
35 Song for the Asking
36 Indian Sunset




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