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Water When You Wake

from Two Hands // Songs of Resistance by Eric George

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Water When You Wake


Like a fortune forgot to be told
Like the seasons changing breaking the stones
Like a shotgun pointed at the kitchen door
Everyone's just blaming their neighbors

For the back door open and the dog got loose
Chewed straight through the hangman's noose
He could hear the hammer just knocking up the new house
Cause somebody's gonna live alone like everybody else

Even lightning bugs have a way to pray
The doors are open for the children on a sunny day
The map is backwards and the rooster crows any time
The day is in the hands of a man's last dime

What moves what moves the motion, we don't
What news do you bring from the mountain
Is this the world we dreamed?
Is this the world we dreamed?

Time will tell it through the songs of birds
Like leaves rattle and roots spread words
Pulling down the limbs trying to feed the ground
Nobody's picking except to be the new sound

It's an eclipse that's lasted too long
A flower falling over 'cause it grew too tall
And the stem cracked the grass felt the rainless break
Grown so used to water when you wake

Shoot the glass through the table
Throw the apple through the arrow
Empty the contents of your pillows
Into rivers and try to sleep

And redefine the finer things in life
Who sows the clothes and who makes the knives
Like lungs breathing air they can't take
Grown so used to water when you wake

What moves what moves the motion, we don't
What news do you bring from the mountain
Is this the world we dreamed?
Is this the world we dreamed?

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from Two Hands // Songs of Resistance, released June 29, 2018

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Eric George Burlington, Vermont

Eric George is a Vermont-based songwriter, sound engineer, and performer of original music and poetry. One of the most prolific folk musicians of the Northeast music scene, he is intent upon maintaining the integrity of American folk music while taking a contemporary approach to songwriting. ... more

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