We're All Water
feet touch dirt, hands touch the sky
clothes we made hang from a line
we've watched as siblings die and pray we never will
sing these work songs silently
melodies of a thousand years
add a new verse everyday
a tour bus passes now and then, glaring souls as black as night
spirits maimed and crippled could never understand this life
their sympathy is laughable, we are the wealthiest alive
the hotels keep crawling nearer
the hum of bulldozers grows louder
their work songs blaze like bugles in our ears
the sickness is ambition, an insatiable appetite
to put t
clothes we made hang from a line
we've watched as siblings die and pray we never will
sing these work songs silently
melodies of a thousand years
add a new verse everyday
a tour bus passes now and then, glaring souls as black as night
spirits maimed and crippled could never understand this life
their sympathy is laughable, we are the wealthiest alive
the hotels keep crawling nearer
the hum of bulldozers grows louder
their work songs blaze like bugles in our ears
the sickness is ambition, an insatiable appetite
to put t
8. 4. 82.
It's August 6th, 1982... and uhh we were jammin' over at the house... my pants caught on fire... we were smokin' a lotta... whiskey and uhh chicken... and uhh got some food and... I got some food and came home and got a call, uhh... no wait, I got some calls then, uhh, came home, then I got some food... came home, got some food and then [cough] got some calls, uhh... couldn't find the fridge for a while and... wait, first we couldn't... we got the food and then... no wait, first we had the fridge