It`s A Hard Life Wherever You Go Lyrics

It`s A Hard Life Wherever You Go lyrics

I am a back-seat driver from America  

 They drive to the left on Falls Road  

 The man at the wheel's name is Seamus  

 We pass a child on the corner he knows  

 And Seamus says, "Now what chance has that kid got?"  

 And I say from the back, "I don't know"  

 He says, "There's barbed wire at all of these exits:  

 and there ain't no place on Belfast for that kid to go"  

 ***It's a hard life, It's a hard life, It's a very hard life  

 It's a hard life wherever you go***  

 If we poison our children with hatred  

 Then the hard life is all that they'll know  

 A cafeteria line in Chicago  

 The fat man in front of me  

 Is calling black people trash to his children  

 ....he's the only trash here I see  

 And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood  

 In the night when his children should sleep  

 But, they'll slip to their window and they'll see him  

 And they'll think that white hood's all they need  

 If I'd been a child in the sixties  

 When dreams could be held through TV  

 With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther  

 Oh, I'd believe, I'd believe, I'd believe  

 Now, I am the back-seat driver from America  

 And I am not at the wheel of control  

 I am guilty, I am war and I am the root of all evil  

 Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road