Tom Paxton - We All Live on the Water lyrics

We live on the water My family and I We go where the current takes us And one by one we die We go where the current takes us To the waving trees and sand Where the men with the guns are waiting And they never let us land The hunger is endless Water running low From coastline to coastline Forever we must go The men with the guns come crowding And they force us out to sea And I don't know where we're sailing If they know, they don't tell me And I don't know why they hate me And I don't know who they are We can't sail this sea forever Though we've already come so far But the men with the guns seem angry That's the worst of the mystery For I don't who sent them To point their guns at me The old ones are dying We bury them at dawn A final look at their faces Then they're over the side and gone Every one of us growing weaker As each body slowly fails Even the youngest of us weaken Hardly able to set the sail And I don't know why they hate me And I don't know who they are We can't sail this sea forever Though we've already come so far But the men with the guns seem angry That's the worst of the mystery For I don't who sent them To point their guns at me We live on the water My family and I We go where the current takes us And one by one we di