Farm Boy Songtext / Lyric

when I was a farm boy

working in snow

putting up fences

in shadow of skiddaw



it was cold in the morning

and my hands couldn't feel

but the hammers keep raining down

on wet posts of steal



and the sky made me frightened

with shape and with sound

configuration

to menace the ground



but I found in my heart

such peace and respite

from the nightmare of being young

in a cold caravan

as I lay in the dark

the silence was better

than any song ever sung






but the weather was changing

sweet spring in the air

I left the farmhouse

on a song and a prayer



and I came to your city

and the trash they call fame

where the hammers keep raining down

as the fence in your name



but whenever I ride north

and I look from the train

I can still see the farm boy

alone in the rain



but I found in my heart

such peace and respite

from the nightmare of being young

in a cold caravan

as I lay in the dark

the silence was better

than any song ever sung



but whenever I ride north

and I look from the train

I can still see the farm b