Don't know about you all, but I really dig this old demo. Love these somehow harsh but still sensitive chord progressions. Absolutely great song writing in my opinion. I wonder what real event in history inspired this song, perhaps some of you have an idea?
Anyway, here's the lyrics as far as I could make them out. Corrections from the native speakers welcome, of course:
The Dam
Home is by the water
Childhood days were easy
Until they came and dammed the river
About three miles down the valley
And the foreign men they came
with all their diggers and their trucks
And they cut down all the skyline trees
That stretched across the hills
And they came to see my father
With the soldiers standing guard
And put a piece of paper in his hands
We watched the waters rising
as we packed up our belongings
Father sat there brought down
As we loaded up the waggon
And my brother went to see
the building men for one last time
"Don't lie to us, don' lie to us"
But all they did was lie
And not a word was spoken
As we left our valley home
Through the dusty roads
I lay and watched the sky
Home is by the railway
on the outskirts of the city
The rains they fall in torrents now
come beating on the shanty
At night we watched the rocket flares
lighting up the sky
There's talk they closed the border up
just ten miles to the north
And the young men head out westward
as the curfew sirens call
And the army trucks gone moving with their guards
