Native Land - Everything But The Girl

Stone the crows if you’ve done it again

If I’ve told you once, told you a thousand times

Sometimes I am so convinced we’re casting pearl amongst the swine

Don’t ever let me hear you say this is the life we folks must lead

We shun the limelight, shun the glare

And the circus built on a bigot’s creed

Heaven is a place I’ve heard

But we haven’t been there yet, I fear

We may have opened pearly gates

But sometimes hell stills steals in here

Don’t ever let me hear you say this is the life we folks must lead

Do you think silver turns our locks?

What gold do you think paves our streets?

You say we’re in a different world now

Where money and love go hand in hand

But can’t you see we share this town

So why should we fight on our native land?

Can’t you see we share this town

So why on earth should we tear it down?