Healing Waters Of The Tigris Lyrics - Tourniquet

Through famine, flood and choking mud the ancient river flows 

Bringing life and death, transporting friend and foe 

To build their cities by its banks the hopeful people chose 

Fortify the walls - the fortress grows 

Secure within the confiness of the stone 

But what awaited them they couldn't have known 

Healing waters of the Tigris 

Ever flowing and all knowing 

Healing waters of the Tigis 

Washing over me 

612 BC the Tigris floods and builds in turbulence 

Pagan land of Nineveh - self-righteous over confidence 

The rising torrent crushed stone and the courses on it's way 

God's judgment on that fatedful day - a terrible price to pay 

The greatest city of all - Nineveh - with a towering city walls 

The awesome power of the swollen river Tigris - caused that massive city to fall 

Healing waters of the Tigris 

Ever flowing and all knowing 

Living water of Jehovah 

Balm of Gilead