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Thread #61399   Message #997231
Posted By: GUEST,Midchuck in Montana
05-Aug-03 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: ADD:Midnight on the Water(sung by Waterson/Carthy)
Subject: Lyr Add: MIDNIGHT ON THE WATER (Judith Edelman)
This kind of messes up my head, but I like it.

P.

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Midnight on the Water
Lyrics: Judith Edelman

No one was out in hour eleven
No one was watching one last moon rise
In the town they all slept undisturbed by my engines
Though I tore through the still of their midnight sky

Twenty-one years, I lied about my age.
They taught me to fly, they gave me a plane
And with my country as my witness
And my orders to obey
It was midnight on the water
When I blew that town away.

CHO:

Midnight on the water
Moon, town, sky
Midnight on the water
Goodbye.

I know that town and another just liket
I have brothers and sisters and a mother still there
In my dream they are sleeping down by the water
It's a beautiful picture from high in the air

Then I'm down in the town, calling everybody's name
No one can hear me, no one can hear the plane.
Then I wake up in a cold sweat
Every night it is the same
Midnight on the water, and I can't go home again.