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Clean Water

from Silver by Nicola Lindsay

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lyrics

All i remember of those streets was tragedy disguised as fun
Beautiful buildings, two world wars hadn't even touched them
Imagine what they've seen
imagine if those bricks could talk
We'd hear of a thousand stories of wandering and tortured souls
Strings of joy crossing strains of pain
and a spider lurking in every corner of the web

I was looking for a friend among all these acquaintances
The criteria was climbing
i don't know if you filled it but we shared something
We were a jewel in the fog

We shared clean water
Let's go fishing in the dirty canal
You offered clean water
We'll fly up out of the roof of your house
Clean water

How'd you end up with a body like that, kid?
Was it something that your mother took?
Something that your mother did
It was a silent question, I got a silent answer
Lady it's none of your business
You just said "come into my apartment" - it was in the dirtiest part of town
I was for you an alternative to spending the day hanging around
Slashing your dreams from rotting old mattress

I treated you like a child but it it was you who kidnapped me
Did you now that where I'm from is exactly like you dream
Should I feel bad about that
Should I just accept your

Clean water......

I was looking for my childhood
You were dragged up out of yours
And in your last wave before drowning you gave me a taste of how you survive a flood of misery with

Clean water
Let's go fishing in the dirty canal
You offered clean water
We'll fly up out of the roof of your house
Fuel up on clean water
We'll fly up out over Europe and Japan
We'll look for clean water
And we'll hold the blue Pacific in our hands
We'll look for clean water
And I'll leave you there to dance like the light
On the.......water

credits

from Silver, released January 3, 1998
Nicola - Guitar and Vocal
Dean Hetherington - Mandolin
Ted Clarke - Harmonica
Jesse Coutts, Ned Webster, John Banks, Mark O'Brien - Background Vocals

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