Indigo Girls - Salty South [Live] Lyrics

Mister, pull up a chair, I got time for tears
Tell me all the stories that you never did
Of the salty south, the Seminoles held out
While Geronimo died in a lonely jail

A thousand tides and
A thousand waves takin' it all away
It will come back in, we'll be gone by then
Oh, it's a miracle, we ever learned to live

Drain that land for a better plan
Sugarcane and the civil man
But now the ringin' dead them pines planted in that time
They gonna keep on killin' till they get it right

A thousand tides and
A thousand waves takin' it all away
It will come back in, we'll be gone by then
Oh, it's a miracle, we ever learned to live

I remember the wind as it was settlin'
And every sun goin' down was a picture then
But we look back at frames, they all look the same
There's no sense of time, no sense of pain

A thousand tides and
A thousand waves takin' it all away
It will come back in, we'll be gone by then
Oh, it's a miracle, we ever learned to give