How Can You Live In The Northeast?

We heard the fireworks

Rushed out to watch the sky

Happy-go-Lucky

Fourth of July



How can you live in the Northeast?

How can you live in the South?

How can you build on the banks of a river when the flood water pours from the mouth?

How can you be a Christian? How can you be a jew? How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu... how can you?



Weak as the winter sun, we enter life on Earth

Names and Religion come just after date of birth

And everybody gets a tongue to speak

and everyone hears an inner voice

a day at the end of the week to wonder and rejoice

If the answer is infinite light, why do we sleep in the dark?



How can you live in the Northeast?

How can you live in the South?

How can you build on the banks of a river when the flood water pours from the mouth?

How can you tattoo your body? Why do you cover your head?

How can you eat from a rice bowl- the holy man only breaks bread?



Oooh-ooh Oooh-ooh



We watched the fireworks, 'till they were fireflies

Followed the path of stars

Over the endless skies



How can you live in the Northeast?

How can you live in the South?

How can you build on the banks of a river when... flood water pours from the mouth?



I have been given all i wanted.

Only three generations off the boat.

I have harvested and i have planted.

I am wearing my Father's old coat.