The Levellers - Forgotten Ground lyrics

It's easy for a long life

Don't be denied forever

Under the night

Come along to be this free

Is what you want too

Breaking the line forever

Under the sun

It will be done together

For each to be one

Come along to be is easy

Taking the stars

Across the road

At the end of this place

It's not far and anyone can go there

It's waste ground

There's no name on this place

But it always has and always will be there

There's no fence, no walls, no fools

Just the summer sun

And what you choose

But was it only yesterday

Tomorrow came and handed you the tools

To burn it down

Your forgotten ground

The golden bough with a rope lies there

For you to climb higher and higher

But by this rope you can hang

If you've forgotten why it was you came there

And you burn it down

Your forgotten ground

When you are old and see this

Know this is cold

That when the sun rises

Tall shadows will hold

The ground you loved

To you is broken taken from you

And I carve my name and then you wrote yours

The black smoke will rise up to cover the stars

Nothing said to be forever except for the night

That will come when we burn you down