the earth is broken

oh now my brother's been taken away, gone are the old times when we used to say, oh a woman was younger she knew what to do, oh but i look around me, now that's not so, i'm lost on that open road no peace do i find, maybe the wind'll blow a melody and ease my mind, but soon love is broken, they'll take you away, oh the wars they been growing as no relief, and the old men who ruled them oh they're just like thieves, they rob from the sunshine, oh the air ain't so clean, our rivers are dirty where once we could see, a smile from your lady friend looking down, look at that river hey did you ever shiver, well the earth is broken there is no one to save, i remember quite freely only yesterday, ah the letter that i read from you read this way, take care lonesome timmy, ah don't you start, thinking you're the only one year that's gone, out on your lonesome road hey lend a hand to your friend, yes he's just as lonely and the wind keeps you cold, remember the rivers that once did flow clean, ah sometimes i wonder how this old world keeps spinning 'round, all the old folks have gone west, lord preparing to die, all except for a few of us hangers on, living each day with trivial hearts, we just stop once in a while cry over the news, in some foreign far city your brother's shot down, because there was a reason a gun had a hand, and the old man killed youth, squeezed down its hope, now i'm just waiting brother waiting for the land, soon in my country there won't be a friend, each one is trying so hard to defend, that one one last heartbeat before he's tugged away, lost in the mechanized efficient world logical skies, ah but no song was written on without a tear in your eyes, are we the last ones, the last ones to try