Escarpment Blues

If they blow a hole in my backyard

Everyone is gonna run away

The creeks won't flow to the

Great Lake below

Will the water in the wells still be okay?

We'll need to build some new apartments

And I know we're gonna have to fix the roads

But if we blow a hole in the escarpment

The wild ones won't have anywhere to go

If they blow a hole in the backbone

The one that runs cross the muscles of the land

We might get a load of stone for the road

But I don't know how much longer we can stand

We'll keep driving on the

Blind Line

If we don't know where we want to go

Even knowledge that's sound can get watered down

Truth can get sucked out the car window

We're two thirds water

What do we really need?

But sun, showers

Soil and seed

We're two thirds water

The aquifers provide

Deep down in the rock

There's a pearl inside

If they blow a hole in the backbone

The one that runs across the muscles of the land

We might get a load of stone for the road

But I don't know how much longer we can stand