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Milford Lake Lyrics by John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask

Wig In A Box: Songs from & Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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[Verse 1]
I used to live in a town underneath Milford Lake
You can throw a rock from here
You might hit my house, if you try
Who would know? I don’t mind
There used to be a road, I suppose there might still be
For a crab, or a fish
It ran from my reflection way to over near that boat
To her house, every night, every night
[Chorus]
Wasted all the time
Waited for no one
Don’t be so cautious
Water washes away many things
But I can’t come clean
No, I can’t come clean
I can’t come clean
[Verse 2]
The flood was two weeks’ rising in 1869
The buffalo all drownеd and floated in the trees
In the flood of ’51, еight boxcars overturned
And the people washed away
And the Mexican day-workers
Pulled the reefer from their yards
And ran for higher ground
Someone wrapped a baby in a shirt
And hung him crying, crying from a tree
There used to be a lot of floods before they built this dam
[Chorus]
Wasted all the time
Waited for no one
Don’t be so cautious
Water washes away many things
But I can’t come clean
No, I can’t come clean
[Bridge]
We’re gonna drown
We’re gonna drown
We’re gonna drown
We’re gonna drown
[Verse 3]
I used to live in a town underneath Milford Lake
Waiting in the spillway stream
Things small enough to make it through
Floating on a wave of your hand
But they’re far between and few
I’m looking for an artifact of the things I left behind
Piece of you, piece of me
Too worn down to recognize
[Chorus]
Wasted all the time
Waited for no one
Don’t be so cautious
Water washes away many things
But I can’t come clean
No, I can’t come clean
I can’t come clean
[Outro]
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Come clean
Credits
John Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell

Stephen Trask

Stephen Trask

About “Milford Lake” by John Cameron Mitchell

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