Slightly South of the Border

Lyrics

[Verse 1] So it's time we moved on This geography has been so hard Over mountains and out through the plains Of this blighted land [Verse 2] We live in an old town And our friends and acquaintances Tell us those stories That make us feel fine [Chorus] It gets dark when the sun goes down And it's cold underfoot The electric comes up through the ground It's paid for with words and tended with love [Verse 3] Shopping is easy and much can be bought With some money you get from somewhere But who makes the Sundays like stone And decidеs where the nеw roads will go [Verse 4] Slow, the road bends at will Plough through from crazy to sane No education prepares you for this You are born and you die [Chorus] We go marching, coughing and croaking So the smog cannot heal up our eyes Great blank walls and dense prickly hedges Paid for with words and tended with love [Verse 5] Small stupid children bring paper to life And up on the damp walls there are patterns like fish There's a time for arriving in old times like these And a time to be moving on... [Chorus] So you see we should be glad Just waiting with huge empty heads Draw a map and tear it in half It's paid for in words and tended with love [Verse 6] The land stretches out You can feel with your hands and under your feet [Chorus] Run your fingers through valleys and streams Snapping fences and warm pools of blood That's the history of all our dreams Paid for with words and tended with love [Outro] And tended with love And tended with love And tended with love