When the River Runs Dry Lyrics
Watching the world go by
Make love in the middle of a warzone
Hey - ya never gonna die
Just another fool in the crowd
Everybody knows - you can be a winner
C'mon - shout it out loud
Now it's only a matter of time
Sooner or later - you open your eyes
And return to the scene of the crime
Now you've bitten off the hand that feeds you
You got nothin' but your soul to sell
You got nothin'
You will return to the scene of the crime
When the river runs dry
Salvation will rain on you one last time
When the river runs dry
Another million miles to run
I'd cry - cry for the future
But I wouldn't get anything done
Relax - abandon ship
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Blind luck - destiny - do me a favour
You will return to the scene of the crime
When the river runs dry
Salvation will rain on you one more time
When the river runs.. dry
Watching the world go by
Make love in the middle of a war zone
All of God's children
Never gonna die
When the river runs dry
Salvation will run on you one more time
When the river runs dry
You will return to the scene of the crime
When the river runs dry
Salvation will rain on you one more time
When the river runs
Only a matter of time
when the river runs dry...
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For shaaaaame.
This song is an incredible Australian classic.
"Make love in the middle of a warzone"
I'm pretty sure this song has something to do with criminals stealing money
This song has very strong environmental undertones eg:-
"Now you've bitten off the hand that feeds you" ie. destroyed the natural food sources in the environment
"Relax - abandon ship Turn your back on Mother Nature" ie. giving up on preserving the environment.
And of course the song's title "When the River Runs Dry". The Murray-Darling River system is the lifeblood of three Australian states and it is literally running dry and becoming more saline as more and more water is sipohoned off for upstream farming at the expense of everything downstream.
This song is deeply spiritual referring to people losing their way due to the distractions of the world and then returning to confront their misdeeds "when the river runs dry";
"Dig deep at the top of the heap, Now you've bitten off the hand that feeds you You got nothin' but your soul to sell You got nothin'", ...........
"salvation will rain on you one more time", ....
"all of God's children never gonna die".........
- think about it.
Mark Seymour is obviously well read, this includes sacred texts. I think he could be writing about the end time prophesy of the drying up of the Euphrates and the chose peoples redemption ..
I agree Mark is very well read and intelligent, and also a great and under appreciated songwriter, hence double entendre's and metaphors. I won't pontificate on what this song is about (at a guess, yep, reckon destruction of the environment, and maybe also the self assuredness that those doing the destruction afford themselves).
And re some spiritual comments, yes there are undoubtedly spiritual/religious connotations or should i say implications, I think particularly for those wealthy conservative right christian types think god's children will never die...but I don't think this song paint's them in a good light.
And yes, I thought about it.
So now, onto The Holy Grail? Do I need to think about that too?