Party Of Five movie - It's a Hard Life Wherever You Go lyrics

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Song by Griffith, Nanci<br /><br>

I am a backseat driver from America<br>

They drive to the left on Falls Road<br>

The man at the wheel's name is Seamus<br>

We pass a child on the corner he knows<br>

And Seamus says, Now, what chance has that<br>

kid got?<br>

And I say from the back, I don't know.<br>

He says, There's barbed wire at all of these exits . . .<br>

And there ain't no place in Belfast for that kid<br>

to go.<br>

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(chorus)<br>

It's a hard life<br>

It's a hard life<br>

It's a very hard life<br>

It's a hard life wherever you go<br>

If we poison our children with hatred<br>

then, the hard life is all that they'll know<br>

And there ain't no place in (Belfast) for<br>

these kids to go<br>

(Chicago)<br>

(This world)<br>

<br>

A cafeteria line in Chicago<br>

The fat man in front of me<br>

Is calling black people trash to his children<br>

he's the only trash here I see<br>

And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood<br>

in the night when his children should sleep<br>

But, they slip to their window and they see him<br>

And they think that white hood's all they need<br>

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(repeat chorus)<br>

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I was a child in the sixties<br>

dreams could be held through TV<br>

With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther<br>

Oh, I believed, I believed . . I BELIEVED<br>

Now, I am the backseat driver from America<br>

I am not at the wheel of control<br>

I am guilty, I am war, . . . I am the root of all evil<br>

Lord, and I can't drive on the left side of the road<br>

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(repeat chorus)<br>

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