Текст Emmylou Harris – It’s A Hard Life Wherever You Go

I am a backseat driver from America
We drive to the left on Falls Road
And the man at the wheel’s name is Seamus
We pass a child on the corner he knows

‘Cause it’s a hard life, it’s a hard life, it’s a very hard life
It’s a hard life wherever you go
And if we poison our children with hatred
Then the hard life is all that they’ll know

Cafeteria line in Chicago
The fat man in front of me
Is calling black people trash to his children
And he’s the only trash here I see
And I am thinking this man wears a white hood
In the night when his children should sleep
But they’ll slip to their windows and they’ll see him
And they’ll think that white hood’s all they need

‘Cause it’s a hard life, it’s a hard life, it’s a very hard life
It’s a hard life wherever you go
And if we poison our children with hatred
Then the hard life is all that they’ll know

I was a child in the Sixties
When dreams could be held through T.V
With Disney and Cronkite and Martin Luther
And I believed, I believed, I believed
Now I am the backseat driver from America
And I am not at the wheel of control

‘Cause it’s a hard life, it’s a hard life, it’s a very hard life
It’s a hard life wherever you go
And if we poison our children with hatred
Then the hard life is all that they’ll know

And there ain’t no place in this world for those kids to go
‘Cause it’s a hard life wherever you go