Indigo Girls - Salty South 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'll come back in We'll be gone by then And 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 We gonna keep on k**in' till they get it right A thousand tides, and A thousand waves Takin' it all away It'll come back in We'll be gone by then, oh And 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 'em framed 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 And it'll come back in We'll be gone by then, oh And it's a miracle we ever learned to give