Leaving in the Morning

There’s a time in the morning when the lake appears to me
In the water’s bright reflection there is all that I can be
It’s a time when two lovers grasp each other by the hand
And a time when the gunfire rings out across the land
And at this time I wonder, is it worth it anymore?
Have we learned what we’ve been taught a thousand times before?
I’m feeling like a stranger when I walk my own homeland
So I’m leaving in the morning, ain’t coming back again
When I was a lover there was no time for me to cry
For forsaken by a lover there are new times you can try
Forsaken by my country I’ve been told to kill and burn
And the teardrops well up in my eyes, there’s nowhere I can turn
And at this time I wonder, is it worth it anymore?
Have we learned what we’ve been taught a thousand times before?
I’m feeling like a stranger when I walk my own homeland
So I’m leaving in the morning, ain’t coming back again
People and places, cities and towns
Are we full of faces that won’t be around?
I know that I’ll be off somewhere, and in some foreign land
I’m a-leaving in the morning ain’t coming back again
There’s a time now for watching on the eagles far above
To gaze upon an azure sky in a country that I love
There must be peace in all lands so that men won’t have to die
But there always is an eagle to watch that lonesome sky
And at this time I wonder, is it worth it anymore?
Have we learned what we’ve been taught a thousand times before?
I’m feeling like a stranger when I walk my own homeland
So I’m leaving in the morning
I’m a-leaving in the morning
I’m a-leaving in the morning, ain’t comin back again