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Water’s High and Rising Lyrics by Pert Near Sandstone

Rising Tide

2020

[Intro]
Keep from the riverside
The water’s high and rising
I know I can make it
If I leave the past behind
[V1]
The storm was raging on
Here was no end in sight
I spent the night in higher ground
Where it was safe and dry
Morning time arrived
And brought my greatest fear
The flood had taken everything
That I held so dear
[Chorus[
God moves on the water
In the Mississippi deep
Took away my home and
Stole my family
Keep from the riverside
The water’s high and rising
I know I can make it
If I leave the past behind
[V2]
Like a leaf I floated down
From river town to town
Nothing I could find
But more unsteady ground
No message in a bottle
To tell me where to go
No one to meet me on the shore
And carry that load
[Chorus]
[V3]
I think of every inch
That used to be my home
Shadowing the miles
That I wandered alone
The years I’ve been away
They've clouded my mind
Heavy weather everywhere
Is all I could find
[Chorus]
[V4]
Now I find where I lived with my kid and wife
No matter how I’ve cried they won't come back to life
I've returned again/ once and finally
On the the bottom of the river / to join my family
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Pert Near Sandstone

Pert Near Sandstone

About “Water’s High and Rising” by Pert Near Sandstone

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"Water’s High and Rising" appears on "Rising Tide" in 2020.

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