The Home Front Lyrics

The song The Home Front is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Volume 1 in the year 2006 .



Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
Grandma lays the table alone
And adjusts a photograph of the unknown soldier
In this Holy of Holies the Home

And from the TV an unwatched voice
Suggests the answer is to plant more trees
The scrawl on the wall says what about the workers
And the voice of the people says more salt please

Mother shakes her head and reads aloud from the newspaper
And Father puts another lock on the door
And reflects upon the violent times that we are living in
While chatting to the wife beater next door

If paradise to you is cheap beer and overtime
Home truths are easily missed
Something that every football fan knows
It only takes five fingers to form a fist

And when it rains here, it rains so hard
But never hard enough to wash away the sorrow
I'll trade my love today for a greater love tomorrow
The lonely child looks out and dreams of independence
From this family life sentence

Mother sees but does not read the peeling posters
And can't believe that there's a world to be won
But in the public schools and in the public houses
The Battle of Britian goes on

The constant promise of jam tomorrow
Is the New Breeds litany and verse
If it takes another war to fill the churches of England
Then the world the meek inherit, what will it be worth

Mother fights the tears and father, his sense of outrage
And attempts to justify the sacrifice
To pa*s their creed down to another generation
Anything for the quite life

In the Land of a Thousand Doses
Where nostalgia is the opium of the age
Our place in history is as clock watchers
Old timers, window shoppers

Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
[Incomprehensible]
And where's that photograph of the unknown soldier
In this Holy of Holies the Home

Father mows the lawn and Mother peels potatoes
Grandma [Incomprehensible]
And where's that photograph of the unknown soldier
In this Holy



Billy Bragg - Volume 1

Mar 2006

  1. The Cloth ( I ) (2:50)
  2. Love Lives Here (1:41)
  3. Speedway Hero (2:37)
  4. Loving You Too Long (2:49)
  5. Loves Gets Dangerous (2:30)
  6. Man In The Iron Mask (2:15)
  7. A13 (2:25)
  8. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (2:32)
  9. Myth Of Trust (2:54)
  10. This Guitar Says Sorry (2:32)
  11. It Must Be A River (2:18)
  12. Won'T Talk About It (5:04)
  13. Talking Wag Club Blues (2:56)
  14. You Got The Power (3:08)
  15. The Last Time (2:53)
  16. Back To The Old House (2:50)
  17. World Turned Upside Down (Between The Wars Ep) (2:36)
  18. Train Train (2:13)
  19. The Marriage (2:32)
  20. Ideology (3:27)
  21. Honey I'M A Big Boy Now (4:08)
  22. Power In A Union (2:49)
  23. Wishing The Days Away (2:30)
  24. The Passion (2:54)
  25. The Home Front (4:12)
  26. Sin City (3:32)
  27. Deportees (4:00)
  28. Tracks Of My Tears (2:54)
  29. The Clashing Of Ideologies (2:49)
  30. A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe (2:46)
  31. Only Bad Signs (3:09)
  32. Hold The Fort (1:48)
  33. CHILE YOUR WATERS RUN RED THROUGH SOWETO
  34. DAYS LIKE THESE (DC REMIX)
  35. JOE HILL
  36. THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
  37. NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE
  38. A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
  39. A MINERS LIFE
  40. The Internationale (3:49)
  41. I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (1:29)
  42. The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions (4:00)
  43. Blakes Jerusalem (2:32)
  44. Nicaragua Nicaraguita (1:09)
  45. The Red Flag (3:13)
  46. My Youngest Son Came Home Today (3:08)
  47. Intro (Live) (0:58)
  48. Think Again (4:21)
  49. A13, TRUNK ROAD TO THE SEA

The Home Front