Tears Of Rage (Alternate Take) (2000 Digital Remaster)

Song Tears Of Rage (Alternate Take) (2000 Digital Remaster)
Artist The Band
Album Music From Big Pink

Lyrics

[00:13.63] We carried you in our arms on Independence Day
[00:30.38] And now you throw us all aside and put us all away
[00:46.73] Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun could treat her father so
[01:03.24] To wait upon him hand and foot, yet always answer no
[01:16.63]
[01:20.20] Tears of rage, tears of grief
[01:28.51] Why must I always be the thief
[01:36.94] Come to me now, you know we're so alone
[01:45.89] And life is brief
[01:50.67]
[01:58.15] It was all so very painless when you ran out to receive
[02:15.10] All that false instruction which we never could believe
[02:31.70] And now the heart is filled with gold as if it were a purse
[02:48.35] But, oh, what kind of love is this which goes from bad to worse
[03:02.20]
[03:05.24] Tears of rage, tears of grief
[03:13.19] Why must I always be the thief
[03:21.88] Come to me now, you know we're so alone
[03:30.93] And life is brief
[03:35.18]
[03:42.29] We pointed you the way to go and scratched your name in sand
[03:58.85] Though you thought that it was nothing more than a place for you to stand
[04:15.40] I want you to know that while we watched you discover no one would be true
[04:32.17] That I myself was among the ones who thought it was just a childish thing to do
[04:46.00]
[04:49.37] Tears of rage, tears of grief
[04:57.29] Why must I always be the thief
[05:06.08] Come to me now, you know we're so alone
[05:15.33] And life is brief
[05:19.61] ~~end~~