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When The Water Falls Lyrics
She's a picture perfect child
Of her sex.
Searching out in childlike ways
For knowledge.
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the problem that confronts her.
Do you know where the sun goes
When the water falls?
Do you know where the rain goes
When the water falls?
Though I think her subjects could
Run far and wide.
She has centered on the topic
Of the sky.
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the questions that confront her.
Of her sex.
Searching out in childlike ways
For knowledge.
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the problem that confronts her.
When the water falls?
Do you know where the rain goes
When the water falls?
Run far and wide.
She has centered on the topic
Of the sky.
Now she's questioning her mother
Yeah she's questioning her father
Yeah she's looking for the answers
To the questions that confront her.
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story behind this one is a little girl ed new from a friend or relative or whatever it be come up to him and aksed..."do you know where the sun goes whent the water fall"...it fits if ya ask me....its bout the little girl just wondering bout every day things....
little kids (in this case a young girl) are full of innocence and purity.
When I hear this song, I think of my 5-year-old girl, and of her beauty, innocence, curiosity, and possibility. "She's a picture perfect child, of innocence, searching out in childlike ways for knowledge."
Beautiful song.
@LaBradford22 I thought the same thing about my 4 year old listening to this song. So many incredible, simple questions, often so deceptively difficult to answer. Magic stuff.
@LaBradford22 I thought the same thing about my 4 year old listening to this song. So many incredible, simple questions, often so deceptively difficult to answer. Magic stuff.
When I first heard this I thought it was about a little girl who wants to know why the warmth and hapiness (the sun) and calm and coolness (the rain) go away, and the troubles and conflicts (water) have to fall on her instead
This is one of my favorite Collective Soul songs. It could be that he is just cherishing his daughter's early moments and curiosity, but I think there is something deeper to be heard in the lyrics. It seems that the lyricist is trying to say that in the innocent days of our youth we begin to ask the questions about very weighty, discomfiting things, like death.
His little girl isn't bothered about the water cycle, but maybe about a pet or a relative that died.
The first line is "picture perfect child of her sex" not "of innocence".