Everyday I've
woken up long before the sun
Never cared for
politics, I've never voted once
Worked in clay
and molded plates your family's eaten from
And I've always
needed backbone in everything I've done.
Never been a clever
man, I've never had my say
All I ask is
honesty for all the tax I've paid
Sown the seed
out in the fields and grew the wheat and corn
And I've always
needed backbone in everything I've done.
I've always needed
backbone
And got along
somehow
But the pressures
of this modern world
Test my patience
now
We're helpless
and our hands are tied
They've melted
down our ploughs
And it seems
to me that no one needs
Our backbone
now.
Raised my kids
and kept my wife the right and proper way
Families don't
pull together, they pull away
Bound the books
that you have read and handed your sons
And I've always
needed backbone in everything I've done.
I've always needed
backbone
And got along
somehow
But the pressures
of this modern world
Test my patience
now
We're helpless
and our hands are tied
They've melted
down our ploughs
And it seems
to me that no one needs
Our backbone
now.
I was taught that
craftsmen
Were the backbone
of the land
But heritage
has gone before
And no one gives
a damn
Computers and
technology
Are built to
teach us how
And the giant
hands of progress boys
Have crushed
our backbone now
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