Lyrics

[Intro] One, two, ready and— [Verse 1] Mister, pull up a chair, I got time for tears So tell me all the stories that you never did Of the salty south, the Seminoles held out While Geronimo died in a lonely jail [Chorus] A thousand tides, 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 [Verse 2] You drain that land for a better plan— The sugarcane and the civil man But now they're ringin' dead them pines planted in that time They gonna keep on killin' 'til they get it right [Chorus] 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 [Verse 3] I remember the wind as it was settlin'— And every sun goin' down was a picture then But we look back in frames, they all look the same— There's no sense of time, no sense of pain [Chorus] 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