"Song Of The Earth" genre: Pop Vocals
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	CD: Forthcoming: Songs from the Long Land   Label: PDN Credits: Paul Needs
	Story Behind the Song There exists a trilogy of books about the Industrial Revolution in south Wales - the iron, coal, farming communities, the people and their struggles. The books, written by Alexander Cordell, are "The Rape of the Fair Country", "The Hosts of Rebecca" and "Song of the Earth". They made me think, made me look at the world, my father's work in the filthy industries which led to his untimely death, and this song came from that. Lyrics Song Of The Earth When I dream of how they’ve torn open my beautiful land When I read of exploitation long since gone, & I sit in horror, disbelieving what it is I see… How humanity was taken out and stoned before my eyes Chorus I hear the Song of the Earth, I hear the cry of the world The furnace lit the hillsides of my country And the iron flowed out all around the world And the fire steel and coal that built my nation Left its scars on skin and earth and soul, Rebecca ruled the roads Chorus Solo (Spoken) I close my eyes and skeletal hands reach to me Their voices beg me never to forget My father once crawled in tunnels a few feet high to cut the earth He prayed his sons would never do the same. But now I’m tired and my visions are all leaving me I can relax because the evils have all gone.. But Chernobyl, Ethiopia and Bhopal were just yesterday Modern blasphemies our world is crying still… © 2003 Paul Needs

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