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Backwater
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Country
Backwater è stato pubblicato il 1 gennaio 2000 da MayApple Records come parte dell'album Big Rock
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Data di uscita1 gennaio 2000
EtichettaMayApple Records
LinguaEnglish
Melodicità
Acousticità
Valence
Ballabilità
Energia
BPM148

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COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Mark Bilyeu
Mark Bilyeu
Songwriter

Testi

Well I gotta leave this country
I think I'm going crazy
Things are getting fuzzy
And the outlook's getting hazy
I tried to cross the borders
Tried to jump the fences
I never made it further
Than the smelly parts of Kansas
Sometimes I feel like a cow led to the slaughter
The longer I let myself linger here in this
Bag of water
This bag of water
My lover went to Denver
She said she got a strong notion
And the last time I saw her
She was flying across the ocean
She sent a short string of letters
Stating her position
I didn't have the nerve
I didn't have the vision
She got tired of the rabble
Tired of the flutter
Tired of picking up the leeches living in this
Bag of water
This bag of water
My great great great great granddad
He was a mean slave holder
And all the founding fathers
They're still sitting on my shoulder
Well if it doesn't matter
Then tell me how this figure
That one of my grandpas
Had a horsey named liquor
That horse was healthy
Up until it buttered
But then she took a big long drink out of this
Bag of water
This bag of water
You swim upstream
You float downstream
Well the sheriff's on the outskirts
He's roughing up the outsiders
No one ever blew the whistle
On that old dog fighter
And they put him in the jailhouse
Way below the standard
And when they finally sued him
He said that he'd been slandered
We let that dog suffer
When we should have shot her
You won't find a merciful gun here in this
Bag of water
This bag of water
Yes everybody's looking
They're searching for an answer
And some are getting gravy
And some are getting cancer
You might go to heaven
You might go to hell
You might go to Walmart
Maybe Taco Bell
Tear out the wire
Throw away the solder
You won't find no hotline to God here in this
Bag of water
This bag of water
Yes I'll put up the wire
If you feed the chickens
And I'll chop their heads off
If you do the feather picking
I'll talk to your daddy
He's waiting in the kitchen
I'll get his blessing
And we can stop his itching
And I'll give you a son
If you give me a daughter
We'll settle down and raise them right here in this
Bag of water
This bag of water
You swim upstream
You float downstream
Written by: Mark Bilyeu
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