Washing Of The Water (Peter Gabriel) ------------------------------------ (Disclaimer: no guarantee of correctness or completeness of transcription is given with respect to 7ths, inversions, fingering, and choice of #/b. Any major blunders, questions and suggestions to djb@uk.ac.bath.maths ;^) Intro: ------ River, river, carry me on Living river, carry me on River, river, carry me on To the place where I come from / Verse: ------ So deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a ride If I should fall, would you swallow me deep inside River, show me how to float, I feel like I'm sinking down Thought that I could get along Chorus: ------- But here in this water, my feet won't touch the ground / I need something to turn myself around / [verse] Going away, away toward the sea River deep, can you lift up and carry me Oh roll on through the heartland 'Til the sun has left the sky River, river, carry me high [chorus] 'Til the washing of the water, make it all alright Let your waters reach me, like she reached me tonight Bridge: ------- Letting go, it's so hard, the way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing, cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide [chorus] River, oh river, river running deep Bring me something that will let me get to sleep In the washing of the water will you take it all away Bring me something to take this pain away -- /////////////////////////////////////////////////// // What makes mass society so difficult to bear // // is not the number of people involved...but // // the fact that the world between them has lost // // its power to gather them together, to relate // // and to separate them. -- Hannah Arendt, 1958 // //-----------------------------------------------// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////