Not Even the Ground / Two Ladies

Generations these words have been brewing Like rocks pressing down underground out of sight When poverty threatens your ruin You have to sing songs to keep fires alight So I'll follow wherever you wander Your flame and my fire should meet Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder Not even the ground under true lovers' feet Grandfathers and fathers and brothers Are old bones gone for coal and for oil and for gold Now shale it makes steamers of other But I dream of you between me and the cold So I'll follow wherever you wander Your flame makes my fire complete Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder Not even the ground under true lovers' feet Each season's a sensitive notion As fraught as a love that we wish to be true As the caught fish remembers the ocean We're eternally bathed in the mem'ry of blue So I'll follow wherever you wander Your rain on my garden was sweet Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder Not even the tears that will fall On the ground under true lovers' feet Believe it's our greed that's the enemy And spread your toes broad in the soil below Relieved that they can't mine the memory Of the heat of the sun as it melted the snow So I'll follow wherever you wander Your flame and my fire should meet Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder Not even the tears that will fall on the bones That lie deep in the ground under true lovers' feet So I'll follow wherever you wander Your flame makes my fire complete Oh, but there's nothing on Earth men won't plunder Not even the ground under true lovers' feet