Neneh Cherry - Across The Water Lyrics
To the fickle let it dropWe have the power to sustainLike the motor needs the foodTo bring more power to our brainNow we bought it backSo let me make it cleanSince our mother's gone, it alwaysSeems to rain -And the boose, and the friends and the partyNever ends!No excuse for behavior than no one can defendWe reflect in the quietTimes inside our headsAnd get thanks from our childrenTuck tight sweet leap in their bedsInside their headsTrickling water dripping downSlow like some rivers without a soundPassed many times since you've been on my sideI'm still here, but I keep you deep insideWith my two hands across the waterWith my two feet in the seaMy fear is for my daughters,But good god will show them meTake our lambs off to the slaughter,Take their lives so perfectlyLike your bricks are filled with mortarCast your wisdom to the bredeCracks? in fall linesNyc talks to meSlow like some rivers on our mother's tvNyc she speaks to me in tonguesKeeps me to her breast, pumps air into my lungsWith my two hands across the waterWith my two feet in the seaMy fear is for my daughters,But good god will show them meTake our lambs off to the slaughter,Take their lives so perfectlyLike your bricks are filled with mortarCast your wisdom to the brede(X2)
