Well I guess we’ll say we didn’t know in advance They’d take the beauty of the fields Coulda, woulda, shoulda done it when we had the chance Too busy on our hamster wheels There ain’t no use in calling foul play when the deal is done But it’s better not to spill the milk than spend your money on a sponge But if that milk is poison, babe, then damn, you better run Just pay the toll, say farewell with a song Well I don’t want to be the one to say I knew that it was wrong And sometimes you don’t know what you got until it’s gone And you cannot split the people from the land where they belong Don’t pay the toll, save the well, say it strong Said the deaf horse to the blind man as they’re looking at the map It looks to be that you and me are headed for a trap And more than one of us would say the train is off it’s tracks But no that doesn’t mean that it cannot turn back But once they got the permits and the passes It’ll probably be too late to move the masses So now would probably be the time to get up off our asses or we’ll be saying farewell to our chances Chorus Now in the beginning there was this feeling that bothered me ‘Cause looking at the science they said they knew it solidly But if we get compared to Flint in terms of water quality In looking back at past events, they’ll call it an anomaly But who’ll be left to clean the messes, it’s...probably me And you’ll be skipping town, I can bet that you’ll be gone ‘n free And all the bad that came to pass, they say it came improbably You’ll be strapped with real cash while we all play monopoly So I don’t owe nobody no kind of apology For not getting a degree in hydrogeology I’m just working off of a precautionary policy And ain’t falling for the same old logical fallacies But I’ll be here until the hundred-year flood comes to swallow me So if you’re a believer won’t you sing it out and follow me Well there ain’t no use in calling foul play once the deal is done Oh, don’t you know that bad things happen every day And there’s a day for everything under the sun When the storm makes the landfall we’ll be baling out the swale Voices tired and faces pale We could have been singing songs and drinking Black Mo Ale We’ll pay the Toll, say the well is where we failed Chorus Let’s save the well, tell the Tolls to roll along

come on, baby won’t you open the door once more, for me, you’re so familiar with the lock and key that keeps the space between us Come on, baby, you know your daddy’s coming home from the place where he was doing you wrong You know I wish that I could write you a song that says I know the places I went made you worry but I swear from now on If you call, I will be coming in a hurry The only place I wanna go is back in time (Back in time) To a place where we can make it better I know I can’t ever get back that sweet child o’ mine by writing it out in a postcard or a letter and as I circled the world, I wasn’t searching for pearls Just trying to find the way Just trying to find the way back to Daddy’s Little Girl Oh my baby, I don’t know where to begin to figure out how it came to an end ‘cause back when you were young your friends wouldn’t come over because of what I did when I wasn’t sober I know, it wasn’t enough to leave your mother I didn’t even tell my own daughter of bringing my new wife to her brother’s wedding and I could say “I’m only human” but that don’t fix the things I’ve ruined or bring back the daughter that I’m losing Why would I ever want to go away so far (from where you are) when where you are is where I want to be I’ll never get back the days when you would drive my car Cause I wasn’t strong enough to take the driver’s seat you know I was scared of the truth about all the things I did to you and when I circle the planet shoulda known that I had it all wrapped up in a pearl from Daddy’s little girl oh you my baby, life used to be wonderful back before I’d come to know That dreams don’t come on silver plates and God gives out a cruel thing called fate maybe you can relate you know I wish that I could write you a book but I think I found a sentence that might be the hook Cause I think you also know about the light that it took the prayer that helped to change me I don’t know where it came from or where it’s going but I hope that day by day the chance of something between you and I is growing The only place I wanna go, is back in time to some place we could work it out, and put it back together how can I ever get back that sweet child of mine? I don’t know but I hope we can find out together and just as you said, here’s a note from the doctor to show that I stopped putting coke in my vodka and that’s when you said you promise you’d be talking to me It’s all for you, can’t you see

My mother told when I was a child that God's heart lives in the heart of the mild and when the loud noises came she held me and smiled and sang “don't let your heart be defiled.” Trapped in this hold, just for holding elixir and I don't believe any more slogans on stickers saying we are one nation here, chosen by God we'd still pray to the devil if we'd never get caught Some seek a better life, and some hide away but all this praying without taking the name's led my mind astray The Nile river turns to blood but I just take it in like a drink from the pub to get through the days I need love like a drug but never can I get the dosage right you can't know the children, you won't see their face they slip in air once you start to give chase I'm the shield for the stones of the homeless and naked but what's there to guard in a place so God-forsaken? It's night in the city, but I can't see the stars and my only light is to play my guitar I just need some relief, I'm not on a mission but I see all the children come crowding to listen Some try to find the light, and some hide away but promise me after the noises stop, someday we'll find a way He led us out of Babylon but a thousand years since all that's been gone and we live in a house we call it a home but somehow we can never sleep at night So stop shouting, boss man, don't call me off I don't care if they break my guitar with the rocks but you can't let it go, couldn't give it a chance and I see all the kids back away from the fence All words of warning, all caution is dead to me why can't the people just listen and let it be who's then to blame if we burn up in anger cause you can't accept a drink from a singer so stop with the lies and stop with the fighting it's all gonna be wrong 'till we get to the writing of songs about names that we wished that we knew We learn from the birds who over the walls of East Jerusalem flew

They say that life's the ocean, and I'm a boat without a sail abandoned by the captain unguarded by the rails and I never know when the winds of fate will wash me to the sea but I believe that sinking deep is the greatest peace that could ever be When my Daddy went to heaven we knew he'd finally be at peace but this world has got a hold on me that I just can't release still the weight of the struggle gets me down God, there must be more than this I need someone to live for a reason to exist and I've never lived atop a mountain, but I can tell you ‘bout climbing the Himalayas with a pack full of stones just give me one day when I'm not wishing for the Saviour to come and take my body home You can't make it on your own you don't know who's on your side when you're losing everything it doesn't help to say you tried you've planted every seed you have and every one of them has died it's like you'll never see your candle go from a flicker to a fire so won't you bury me softly and seal it with a kiss though it's hard for me to hurt the hearts of the people I would miss still only God himself can grant my final wish for just one day without the pain for something just like bliss You know, I've never lived atop a mountain but everyday's an uphill battle with a pack full of stones my days full of trouble by the thousands Just gimme one peaceful day and you can take my body home But then one day it hit me and I broke down and cried I forgot about the only thing that was keeping me alive my candle is just a flicker now my rope is at it's end but Love's the only thing that hasn't left me for dead When living gets me down I put my faith in God I know my friends don't understand though they sure do try a lot when you feel nobody walks with you you're always on the run But I'll wait for the day when the one I need is the person I've become make me a candle that burns on heartstrings give me a lamp that can run on teardrops alone Please give me anything to light my pathway cause every day I'm walking on the path leading home