{"id":216,"date":"2010-08-14T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T03:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lillilewis.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=216"},"modified":"2010-08-14T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T03:29:05","slug":"water-i-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/lyrics\/water-i-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Water I (The Water)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my father used to say <br \/>\n            &#8220;my darling, what&#8217;s your strategy?<br \/>\ncause your people won&#8217;t survive alone <br \/>\non all your theory<br \/>\nuse your mind and use your heart <br \/>\nto be the change you want to see&#8221;<br \/>\nso this is how i walk the path <br \/>\ncreator made for me<\/p>\n<p>when i eat the rice, then i clean the bowl<br \/>\nif i scorch the sky then i mend the hole<br \/>\nif i slay the herd, everyone pays the toll<br \/>\nbecause we all have to drink the water<\/p>\n<p>i left home for education, <br \/>\nto replete an eager mind<br \/>\nwith my wisdom to recover, <br \/>\nand my young will to refine<br \/>\nwhat my people knew of fishing <br \/>\nthey&#8217;d forgotten over time<br \/>\nso i returned home to my people <br \/>\nwith a fishing line<\/p>\n<p>and when we eat the rice, we clean the bowl.<br \/>\nif we scorch the sky then we mend the hole<br \/>\nand we&#8217;ll catch the wind <br \/>\nbecause we can&#8217;t clean the coal<br \/>\nand we all have to drink the water<\/p>\n<p>100 years after <br \/>\ni was killed by calvary<br \/>\ni journeyed to the great white land <br \/>\nto seek apology<br \/>\nTom Daschel said he&#8217;d only grant <br \/>\nthe state&#8217;s regrets to me<br \/>\nCause apologizing one time <br \/>\nmight just set the floodgates free<\/p>\n<p>but you ate the rice now you clean the bowl.<br \/>\nyou scorched the sky <br \/>\nso you must mend the hole<br \/>\nyou took my voice <br \/>\nright with the land you stole<br \/>\nbut we all have to drink the water<\/p>\n<p>yes you ate the rice so you clean the bowl<br \/>\nyou scorched the sky <br \/>\nso you must mend the hole<br \/>\nyou slayed the herd and still won&#8217;t pay the toll<br \/>\nbut we all have to drink the water<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my father used to say &#8220;my darling, what&#8217;s your strategy? cause your people won&#8217;t survive alone on all your theory use your mind and use your heart to be the change you want to see&#8221; so this is how i walk the path creator made for me when i eat the rice, then i clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics","tag-very-small-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.folkrockdiva.com\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}