Don't Drink The Water lyrics

Song information

Artist: Dave Matthews Band And Dave Matthews
Album: Before These Crowded Streets

Lyrics

Don't drink the water here..

Come out, come out, no use in hiding
Come now, come now, can you not see
There's no place here, what were you expecting?
No room for both, just room for me

So you will lay your arms down
Yes, I will call this home

Away, away, you have been banished
Your land is gone, and given to me

And here I will spread my wings
Yes, I will call this home

What's this you say, you feel a right to remain?
Then stay and I will bury you

What's that you say, your father's spirit still lives in this place?
Well, I will silence you

Here's the hitch, your horse is leaving
Don't miss your boat, it's leaving now

And as you go I will spread my wings
Yes, I will call this home
I have no time to justify to you
Fool, you're blind, move aside for me

All I can say to you my new neighbor
You must move on or I will bury you

Now as I rest my feet by this fire
Those hands once warmed here, but I have retired them
I can breathe my own air and I can sleep more soundly
Upon these poor souls
I'll build heaven and call it home
Cause you're all dead now

I live with my justice
And I live with my greedy need
I live with no mercy
And I live with my frenzied feeding
I live with my hatred
And I live with my jealousy
I live with the notion that I don't need anyone but me

Don't drink the water
Don't drink the water
Blood in the water
Don't drink the water

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