It’s hard to choose direction
It’s hard to pick a side
On the two foot hump of a sub-continental divide
Where floods take their time
And mud is waist high
Will you wait? Will you wait?
‘Til canals take their place
Will you wait? Will you wait?
‘Til these floodlands are erased.
We’ll dynamite through dolomite
We’ll drain the Skokie marsh
We’ll raise the city up and make it tall
We’ll flood the Mississippi
And bleed the Great Lakes dry
And worry ‘bout each rain drop when it falls
Don’t you believe me?
Nothing is ever lost in here
Stored in Deep Tunnel
Waiting for its time to reappear
Will you wait? Will you wait?
Don’t you believe me?
Nothing is ever lost and everything will find its way in time
In time
And if you only knew how I have tried
To open locks and fling the floodgates wide
And let the water flow
What things will float, what things will sink, what things will overflow
We’ll change the source, reverse the course and watch the city grow
The landfill shifts, banks start to give. It won’t take very much
For us to flood downtown and learn to drown while keeping our heads up.
We’re working hard we’re working hard we’re working hard we’re working hard
Building buildings to the sky and tunneling tunnels down beneath them
There’s just concrete over water over mud that’s always shifting
When you get down to the bottom and you find my outstretched hand please pull me up.
credits
from The Decline of America Part One: The Bush Years,
released May 17, 2010
Dave - Acoustic Guitars, singing, piano, keyboards
Anna Soltys - Singing
Doug Stone - Singing
Didi Afana- Lead Guitar
Ross Bonadonna - Additional elec, guitar
Claudia Chopek - Violin
Joey Weisenberg - Mandolin
J.D. Foster - Bass
Bill Gerstel - Drums
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