Where in the hell can you go   Far from the things that you know   Far from the sprawl of concrete that keeps crawling   It's way about 1,000 miles a day      Take one last look behind   Commit this to memory and mind   And don't miss this wasteland   This terrible place      When you leave   Keep your heart off your sleeve      Motherland cradle me   Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep   Keep me safe, lie with me   Stay beside me don't go, don't go, don't you go      Oh, my five and dime queen   Tell me what have you seen?   The lust and the avarice, the bottomless   Cavernous greed, is that what you see?      Motherland cradle me   Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep   Keep me safe, lie with me   Stay beside me don't go, don't go      It's your happiness I want most of all   And for that I'd do anything at all, oh, mercy me   If you want the best of it or the most of all   If there's anything I can do at all      Now come on shot gun bride   What makes me envy your life?   Faceless, nameless, innocent and blameless   And free, what's that like to be?      Oh, motherland cradle me   Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep   Keep me safe, lie with me   Stay beside me don't go, don't go      Motherland cradle me   Close my eyes, lullaby me to sleep   Keep me safe, lie with me   Stay beside me don't go, don't go      Don't you go