Liberty Belle
Lyrics
Liberty Belle
Liberty Belle is ringing out across the sea And everyone sings along Though she's singing way out of key From the shores of Galilee To the runways of Anglesey You know we're digging to hell Right past our oil wells As the magpies fly from Tallahassee To the sky Memory Lane forgot her way after all this time And she never learned from her mistakes And all the crime That caused the gulf of misery That's separating you from me You know we're digging to hell Drowing in our oil wells As the seagulls fly from Abu Dhabi To the sky The birds still sing their melodies Songs of love and food and trees Oh my, how they fly So little do they know, yeah Yet their days are numbered so Alarms are ringing in the trees: You know you're digging to hell Drowning in your oil wells As the ashes fly from New York City Past the grimy clouds above New Jersey Past the kids who like to smoke like chimneys To the sky Notes
2/ Liberty Belle For this I devised cartoon characters called Liberty Belle and Memory Lane, and Liberty Belle I suppose represents the bells of freedom and Memory Lane represents history's harsh lessons that Liberty Belle always forgets. Liberty Belle represents the American Dream, which is all conquering and has no fear. She's young, innocent and carefree, skipping along... Memory Lane is the flipside, the one that's learnt from history's harsh realities. Its sung from the perspective of a bird living almost in a parallel universe to humans, oblivious to the gravity of the games which are being played around us. I think that's how I feel a lot of the time, and a lot of other people do too.
Melonie Walter All Rights Reserved ©2003 - 2016 SuperFurry.org melonie at tifandgif.com
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