| Lyrics: | Written by: John Mellencamp and George Green
This land today, shall draw its last
breath
And take into its ancient depths
This frail reminder of its giant, dreaming
self.
While I, with human-hindered eyes
Unequal to the sweeping curve of life,
Stand on
this single print of time.
Human wheels spin round and round
While the clock keeps the
pace.
Human wheels spin round and round
Help the light to my face.
That time,
today, no triumph gains
At this short success of age.
This pale reflection of its brave
and
Blundering deed.
For I, descend from this vault,
Now dreams beyond my earthly
fault
Knowledge, sure, from the seed.
Human wheels spin round and round
While the
clock keeps the pace.
Human wheels spin round and round
Help the light to my
face.
This land, today, my tears shall taste
And take into its dark embrace.
This
love, who in my beating heart endures,
Assured, by every sun that burns,
The dust to which
this flesh shall return.
It is the ancient, dreaming dust of God.
Human wheels spin
round and round
While the clock keeps the pace.
Human wheels spin round and round
Help
the light to my face.
Human wheels spin round and round
While the clock keeps the
pace.
Human wheels spin round and round
Help the light to my face. |
