Bad Water - Jinjer

So you want me to drench a desert

Bad water is all I’ve got

You ask me to imbue the poor

Bad water is all I’ve got

So you want to perceive your life?

Bad water is in your mind

Joy will never fill your heart

Red water turns into the tar

I am a cracked jar

Bad water‘s running through my eyes

I leak!

It burns!

But still I can be refilled —

It returns…

It kills a seed, kills a breed

Smothers everything we need

Plugging our pores up

Flakes of salt drag to the start…

Our lips are dry from constant cry

Our mouths are made of chalk and sand

If only we took one last sip

Backwater carried away for a final trip

The sky is a cracked jar

Bad water’s running through the clouds

It leaks!

It burns!

But still it can be refilled

It returns…

Until we wash our feet in a creek

Until we spit in a cup and then drink

Till we curse upon the sea

Until the land can’t shed a single tear…

Bad water is all we will be…