Water Lyrics - Pain Of Salvation

Ground water moves very slowly. 

While water at surface can be measured in 

Meters per second, 

The ground water will more likely be measured in meters 

Per year! 

Contamination of the ground water causes severe damage for a very 

Long time. 

Despite this, military and nuclear industry constantly pollutes large areas 

Of ground water 

In times of peace. 

I've always loved the sound of rain 

Touching so softly my windowpane 

And then the scent of dew at dawn 

Coming to greet me from my moist lawn 

Home 

I always took it for granted 

I never valued the drops I shed 

I failed to see the relation 

Between my self and world starvation 

Water's for the chosen 

But how come we expect us to be those few 

Me and you? 

In this hot, 

Desolate timeglass I met this man, 

Wearing a worn old flyer's cap. 

Every day he had to dig 10 feet down for his daily ration of water 

One poor gallon. 

And so he did 

Singing while doing it! 

10 feet of sand for the thirst 

But he gave me half of what he was given for a day 

All for thirst and sanity use 

While we use up hundred times more: 

What do we do with it? 

Pipes and bathtubs, sprinklers and fountains! 

Freshwater used as a dump for oil and nuclear waste! 

"Desert people turns humble" he said 

They know what they have 

But do they know what they lose when we flush? 

But yet, sadly, 

He looked up to me. 

Felt a need for our greed: 

Our "freedom". 

Said all he really wanted was a car and a radio. 

He too failed to see the relation 

Between our lives 

And his starvation 

Water's for the chosen 

Water's for the few 

Life is for the chosen 

But only if we believe it to be true 

But we do! 

(But I'm through!) 

I've always loved the sound of rain