"Lost Unto This World"

Lost Unto This World

I was once some mother's darlin',

Some daddy's little girl,

More precious than the ruby,

More cherished than the pearl.

My heart was full of mercy,

And my forehead full of curl,

Now I am nothing and am lost unto this world.

They herded me like cattle, cut me down like corn, took me from my babies, before they could be born.

You can blame it on the famine,

You can blame it on the war,

You can blame it on the devil,

It don't matter anymore.

I was tortured in the desert,

I was raped out on the plain,

I was murdered by the highway,

And my cries went up in vain.

My blood is on the mountain,

My blood is on the sand,

My blood runs in the river,

That now washes thru their hands.

Can I get no witness, this unholy tale to tell, was God the only one there watching and weeping as I fell?

Oh, you among the living, will you remember me at all?

Will you write my name out, with a single finger scrawl?

Across a broken window, in some long forgotten wall, that goes stretching out forever, where the tears of heaven fall.

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

I am lost unto this world...

-Emmylou Harris