Mumford and sons dust bowl dance lyrics

De jonge man staat aan het einde van zijn veranda
De dagen waren kort en de vader was weg
Er was niemand in het dorp en niemand op het veld
Dit stoffige kale land had alles gegeven wat het had

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Dust Bowl Dance
Sigh No More
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Ik ben van mijn land af gegooid toen ik zestien was
En ik heb geen idee waar anders mijn hart had kunnen zijn
Ik legde al mijn vertrouwen aan de voet van deze heuvel
En nu ben ik zeker dat mijn hart nooit stil kan zijn
Dus verzamel je moed en haal je paard op
En bid dat je nooit dezelfde soort spijt zal voelen

Verzegel mijn hart en breek mijn trost
Ik heb nergens om te staan en nergens om te verstoppen
Zet mijn hart, mijn lichaam, mijn geest op één lijn
Om onder ogen te zien wat ik heb gedaan en mijn tijd uit te zitten

Nou jij bent mijn beschuldiger, nu kijk in mijn gezicht
Jouw onderdrukking riekt naar je hebzucht en schande
Dus een man heeft en een ander heeft niet
Hoe kun je houden van wat het is dat je hebt
Wanneer je alles hebt genomen uit de zwakke handen van de armen?
Leugenaars en dieven jullie weten niet wat er voor jullie in petto staat

Er zal een tijd komen dat ik je in de ogen kijk
Je zal bidden tot de God die je altijd hebt ontkent
Dan zal ik naar achter gaan en ik zal mijn geweer halen
Ik zal zeggen: "Je hebt mij niet ontmoet, ik ben de enige zoon"

Nou ja meneer, ja meneer, ja ik was het
Ik weet wat ik heb gedaan, want ik weet wat ik heb gezien
Ik ging naar achteren en ik pakte mijn geweer
Ik zei: "Je hebt mij niet ontmoet, ik ben de enige zoon"

Songfacts®:

Much of Mumford & Sons' lyrical content has a strong literary influence, the Sign No More album name deriving from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. This song, for instance draws heavily from the John Steinbeck novel Grapes of Wrath. Frontman Marcus Mumford explained the influence of the Great Depression set classic on the song's chorus in an interview with American Songwriter: Said Mumford: "One conversation that I remember is when Ben (Lovett keyboards) and I were sitting with a piano and guitar and we were working at the skeletal verse and chorus for 'Dust Bowl Dance.' We were sitting and I remember he came with these chords and I said 'Alright, let's try to write something around that. Those are great chords.' And I'd just finished Grapes of Wrath and was feeling pretty 'wrathful' (laughs). And I remember we talked about what the chorus should be about."
The song title alludes to a severe drought that affected the South Western Great Plains region of the United States during the 1930s. The drought brought the arid region to its knees and turned it into a vast dust bowl. Thousands of farm families were forced to flee west and scratch a living anyway they could. Grapes of Wrath focuses on the Joads, a poor family of sharecroppers trapped in the Dust Bowl who set out for California seeking jobs, land and a future.
Here's a couple more songs inspired by Grapes of Wrath: Sorrow by Pink Floyd, The Ghost of Tom Joad by Bruce Springsteen.

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The young man stands on the edge of his porch
The days were short and the father was gone
There was no one in the town and no one in the field
This dusty barren land had given all it could yield

I've been kicked off my land at the age of sixteen
And I have no idea where else my heart could have been
I placed all my trust at the foot of this hill
And now I am sure my heart can never be still
So collect your courage and collect your horse
And pray you never feel this same kind of remorse

Seal my heart and break my pride
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
Align my heart, my body, my mind
To face what I've done and do my time

Well you are my accuser, now look in my face
Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace
So one man has and another has not
How can you love what it is you have got
When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?
Liars and thieves you know not what is in store

There will come a time I will look in your eye
You will pray to the God that you always denied
Then I'll go out back and I'll get my gun
I'll say, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"

Seal my heart and break my pride
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
Align my heart, my body, my mind
To face what I've done and do my time

Seal my heart and break my pride
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
Align my heart, my body, my mind
To face what I've done and do my time

Well yes sir, yes sir, yes it was me
I know what I've done, 'cause I know what I've seen
I went out back and I got my gun
I said, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"