Verse 1
When you here in the water and you feel like its order
Releasing your tension the stress and disorder Is big in America
Stephanie, Erica, both of them suffer from livin in hari cuz
Livin is very competitive
Hassling creditors, hazardous accidents
Driving with negligence
Too many beverages, people got to many things on they letters
Says Tv's deadliest, professing the ugliest
War, war, war, war
What the hell you keep on killing me for
Please won't you come and bend down low
Let me tell you what little I know
And if its worth something
Spread it indeed like shit and vomit that's under your feetI was born in a pot boiling black and hot
Waiting to be tasted and rapping a lot
But justice would not come and eat my flesh
Instead I had poverty to feed my stress
Until my life became an ode to the gun
Not needed like an overcoat to the sun
So I thought I was just made to exist
Not to live or, change or resist
But fear will have you believe in fear
Paralyze have you believe in tears
This is the therapy needed, so use it
Music is water, you know how I might prove this
People need music like they need excuses
People need water like kanye needs jesus

So wash it down, (wash it down)
Wash it down, (wash it down) (6x)

I know you stressing
This is a little meditation for you to relax
And jump in the pool and you know, sink in the sink
My people drum on water, drink on water, live on water, die for water (2x)

© K'Naan