Name: Wade in the Water
Duration: P00H02M59S
Description: This is certainly far from top-shelf lyric writing, but it's the first actual lyric I think I've written in quite some time that wasn't a complete throwaway or placeholder, so I feel pretty good about it. I could imagine this as a solid potential Mag Green track - I'd love to hear what the boys might do with it.

Doug Davis - Wade in the Water

from Round 29, Week 6 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This is certainly far from top-shelf lyric writing, but it's the first actual lyric I think I've written in quite some time that wasn't a complete throwaway or placeholder, so I feel pretty good about it. I could imagine this as a solid potential Mag Green track - I'd love to hear what the boys might do with it.

lyrics

Ever since you were a little bitty babe
I have fixed you with my eagle eye
Should you ramble to the left
Should you stray to the right
Should you wander under starry sky

I will build you up a tower ten feet tall
I will fence you in as safe as sound
Should the crows swoop down
Should the night fall black
I will hide you in the underground

But you’re gonna have to
Wade in the water
In the river gonna dive
Gotta swim if you don’t wanna drown
Gonna have to
Wade in the water
In the river gonna dive
You gotta learn how to swim in the sound

I’ve seen you buried in the bosom of the hearth fire
I’ll see you carried in your lover’s arms
I’ve seen you rocked in the cradle
Let you win all the wagers
I have raised no false alarms

I can shout it from the barricades above
Spell it in the pebbles on the shore
But when the fog lights fade
When the roof gonna cave
I can’t show you what the big night’s for

‘cause you’re gonna have to
Wade in the water
In the river gonna dive
Gotta swim if you don’t wanna drown
Gonna have to
Wade in the water
In the river gonna dive
You gotta learn how to bathe in the sound

Comes a day and I shall not pass easy
In the shadows I will go
And you will step up to the river’s edge
And dive into the waters below

‘cause you’re gonna have to
Wade in the water
In the river gonna dive
Gotta swim if you don’t wanna drown
Gonna have to
Wade in the water
In the river gonna dive
You gotta learn how to bathe in the sound

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from Round 29, Week 6, released October 19, 2020

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