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  • Artiest: 10000 Maniacs
    Song: Poison In The Well

  • (music: Dennis Drew, words: Natalie Merchant)
    
    Tell me what's gone wrong. I tilt my head there, under the faucet, but when
    I turn it on -- dry as paper. Call the neighbors. Who's to blame for what's
    going on? In the dark without a clue I'm just the same as you.
    O, they tell us there's poison in the well, that someone's been a bit untidy
    and there's been a small spill. Not a lot, no, just a drop. But there you are
    mistaken, you know you are. I wonder just how long they knew our well was
    poisoned but they let us just drink on.
    O, they tell us there's poison in the well, that someone's been a bit untidy
    and there's been a small spill. All that it amounts to is a tear in a salted
    sea. Someone's been a bit untidy, they'll have it cleaned up in a week. But
    the week is over and now it's grown into years since I was told that I should
    be calm, there's nothing to fear here. But I drank that water for years, my
    wife and my children.
    Tell me, where to now, if your fight for a bearable life can be fought and
    lost in you backyard? O, don't tell us there's poison in the well, that
    someone's been a bit untidy, that there's been a small spill. All that it
    amounts to is a tear in a salted sea. Someone's been a bit untidy, they'll
    have it cleaned up in a week.