What can I do I got no skills
Can I work in your steel mill?
Break my back to pay my bills
Eat food that’s got no flavor
Where can we go, I ain't got money.
Maybe Miami or somewhere sunny
Please don’t cry my unhappy honey
Your tears are just like the rain
Fallin’ on my idle hands
Filling up the empty sky
Drownin’ all our hopes and dreams again
Highwater’s here, startin’ to rise, highwater’s here
Feel like jumpin’ on a bed of nails
Sleepin’ in the rain and hail
Wishin’ for an ox’s tail
And a place to rest my bones
People huddled all together
Fixin’ to die It’s god’s will
Seekin’ shelter from the weather
Then we’re heading back out to the hills
Don’t be long I’ll be right here
Waitin’ on your return
In the morning we’ll be off
At the break of dawn
Highwater’s here, startin’ to rise, highwater’s here
Have you seen her sir she’s very pretty?
I’ve been walkin’ the streets of this corporate town
Callin’ her name in a soulless city
Have you her here sir, is she lookin’ around?
“It fits the temper of a woman’s way”
“If you can’t go, then she can’t stay.”
He spoke to me as he looked away
Then he wandered off into the night
Highwater’s here, startin’ to rise, highwater’s here (ya don’t know my mind!)
credits
from Collaborations,
released January 20, 2014
Written by Bryan Ciliberto - played by Oorlab -
Picture June 3rd 2013 Mark Hoogslag Regensburg, Germany. With kind permission
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