Escarpment Blues Lyrics

Sarah Harmer Escarpment Blues

If they blow a hole in my backyard

Everyone is gonna run away

And the creeks won't flow to the Great Lake below

Will the water in the wells still be ok?


If they blow a hole in the backbone

The one that runs cross the muscles of the land

We might get a load of stone for the road

But I don't know how much longer we can stand
We'll need to build some new apartments

And I know we're gonna have to fix the roads

But if we blow a hole in the escarpment

The wild ones won't have anywhere to go



If they blow a hole in my backyard

Everyone is gonna run away

And the creeks won't flow to the Great Lake below

Will the water in the wells still be OK?
We'll keep driving on the Blind Line

If we don't know where we want to go

Even knowledge that's sound can get watered down

Truth can get sucked out the car window


Truth can get sucked out the car window

We're two-thirds water

What do we really need?

But sun, showers, soil and seed

We're two-thirds water

The aquifers provide

Deep down in the rock

There's a pearl inside



If they blow a hole in the backbone

The one that runs across the muscles of the land

We might get a load of stone for the road

But I don't know how much longer we can stand.
We might get a load of stone for the road
But I don’t know how much longer we can stand.