Water - Luke Thompson

I am the stranger in the shadows

I am the sleeper at the wheel

Am I the choice the anonymous voice

That says none of it's real

I've heard the footsteps of the hungry

I've heard the breathing of relief

I heard the scream of a mother in a dream

But that could have been me

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I walked out to the grieving ocean

I lay down by the thirsty sea

I found a man there dying without water

He looked just like me

You say

I have come from the walls of worry

I fled the wounded streets of war

I walked a thousand miles in the wrong direction

But what was it for

What was it for

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Water

I am a chorus of the guilty

I am the water on the ground

I am collectively the face of the lost

Who want to be found

We drink to love and deception

We drink to charity and greed

We drink to numb the very thing we've become

When it's water we need

It's water we need

Water oh water

Oh water

Oh water

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Oh water

Oh water

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Oh water

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