Downstream

by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

From the album: The Purple Bird

Track 9 of 12 on The Purple Bird (2025).

Duration: 3:48

The Purple Bird cover art

Lyrics for Downstream

What鈥檚 in the water, what鈥檚 in the wind The weather is wilder than it鈥檚 ever been The ocean鈥檚 still blue but it ain鈥檛 what it seems It鈥檚 time to remember, we all live downstream what鈥檚 gonna happen, what will you think When it鈥檚 not so easy to get you a drink The water is changing, the well鈥檚 going dry It surely might kill us in the sweet by and by You sleepwalk for centuries and you don鈥檛 look around At the progress of man, determined and bound We live in the ruins of another life鈥檚 dream But nobody told us that we all live downstream There鈥檚 an island adrift out in the sea It鈥檚 being made special by you and by me Nothing can live there, nothing can be We learned the hard way that we all live downstream You sleepwalk for centuries and you don鈥檛 look around At the progress of man, determined and bound We live in the ruins of another life鈥檚 dream O and we should have known that we all live downstream

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  2. London May
  3. Tonight With The Dogs I'm Sleeping
  4. Boise, Idaho
  5. The Water's Fine
  6. Sometimes It's Hard to Breathe
  7. New Water
  8. Guns Are For Cowards
  9. Downstream
  10. One of These Days (I'm Gonna Spend the Whole Night With You)
  11. Is My Living in Vain?
  12. Our Home