The Big House

(album: Lauren Wood - 1979)

Hear the guns and the distant thunder
I can't go out there
So detached from the ache and the hunger
Afraid to care

Don't know it when the sun goes down
I read it that the world spins 'round

Here in the big house
We're living in "Panavision"
We got a city we call Avalon
Here in the big house
We got a subdivision
Where it is burning like the Amazon

Fifty-two little states in a jumble
Nowhere to run
Got to fight to survive in the jungle
My head is numb

We were looking for a better life
Still hoping it will turn out right

Here in the big house
We're living in "Panavision"
We got a city we call Avalon
Here in the big house
We got a subdivision
Where it is burning like the Amazon
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