Barbed Wire Fence

 


Barbed Wire Fence


Well nobody in this world has got it made
If they think otherwise it's a grave mistake
If it's not one thing then it's another
Before you know it you're six feet under

Like a barbed wire fence going cut you down, cut you down
In a wide open space you're running free
Then a barbed wire fence will cut you down
Life's not easy, it's never intended to be

Got a million things but there's nothing I need
Taken up my space and used up my green
Standing in the open with the wind cutting through me
Nobody knows  the things that  I see, the things I see

Like a barbed wire fence gonna cut me down, cut me down
In a wide open space I'm running free
And a barbed wire fence will cut me down
Life's not easy, it's never intended to be

C1988 Townedgers Music Emporium

In some ways a protest song that made it's debut at the old Whittier Town Hall (you really can't miss it) for the Travelogue album, I did a one take with Brian Mullahan pounding on the tom toms Indian style. And got a nice reception afterwards.

What the song means is that nobody how free and easy we think we got it made, there's always a barb wired fence ready to cut us down if we're not careful.