2. Gimme Water
// April 6th, 2009 // Writing On The Wall
This is a pretty hard edged rocking tune, although leaning heavily on the acoustic guitar groove. This combination I think keeps its naked feet solidly dug down in the earth, whereas with different instrumentation including distorted electric guitars and bigger sounding production it would surely have been soaring in arena rock orbit. I quite like it this way though.
The theme of the lyrics is stagnation in a relationship. The point when things stop happening. No matter how happy, a marriage goes stale if you don’t keep re-defining and re-inventing it. That’s just the way we humans work. Standing still is going backwards.
Janne Hedlund whacks out a solid beat on the drums, and also contributes a wicked blues harmonica, while Robert Wirensjö does great work on the Hammond organ.
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Gimme Water
(Jana Persson)
Ain’t no mercy in the desert
Desert sun will suck you dry
Dried out bones will make you weary
A weary man is bound to die
Imagine rain on the horizon
Feel it running down my face
Oh, the joy of saturation
Baby, I’ve been waiting for days
Just gimme water, water
Please just gimme water, water
Baby, gimme water, water
Don’t you leave me here alone
Thirsty for your loving cup of water, water
Water changes as it ages
Clear and sparkling at first
Though with age it might get murky
Still it satisfies my thirst
I don’t care we’re getting older
I don’t mind our life’s a bore
I still see my pretty baby
I’m still thirsty for more
Just gimme water, water
Please just gimme water, water
Baby, gimme water, water
Don’t you leave me here alone
Thirsty for your loving cup of water, water
Please just gimme water, water
Baby, gimme water, water
Don’t you leave me here alone
Thirsty for your love
April 18th, 2009 at 6:26 am
Hi Jana! Listened to Writing On The Wall……enjoyed very much! I also listened to Gimme Water. I have to say that fits right into home. I live in the High Mojave Desert of CA. About an hour and a half from Death Valley. I will come back soon to listen to more.