Water Towers Lyrics

My home town's is blue

And white and bears its name

And it keep our spigot running true

It's painted bold, so you can bet

The out-of-towners won't forget

Until they see the next one, and they do

And life is different

In the land of water towers

Autumn colors burn away

The cool of summer showers

The air is fresh and clean

And doesn't have that city sour

When you're livin' in the land

of water towers

Your yellow flag says

Boys in red won't tread on you

But I don't think you heard the news

Your face has a lighter hue

And doesn't match the caller's clue

And the boys who tread these days

Are dressed in blue

And life gets harder

In the land of water towers

When some believe the land

Is only theirs when it is ours

We stole it once, and kept it twice

We bathed it in a crimson shower

The land we love

The land of water towers

I love a lady

But we don't all love the same

And we're born to love the ones we do

There's picket signs and calls for time

For murderers in clinic lines

They only blame the one

And it took two

'Cause time moves slowly

In the land of water towers

Seconds pass like minutes

And the minutes pass like hours

We hate the sin and not the sinner

Unless that sin is ours

When we're livin' in the land

Of water towers

And all the kids are not alright

With backpacks in a firefight

And heroes who can't seem to find the way

We ban the books to serve the cause

To give that first amendment pause

Unless they say the things that we would say

Bless your heart is not a blessing

And if you don't like grandma's dressing

Everyone just smiles and chokes it down

'Cause smiles are nice and truth is tricky

Jesus might've been a hippie

But we don't like that

In our little water-tower town

'Cause life is different

In the land of water towers

Autumn colors burn away

The cool of summer showers

The air is fresh and clean

And doesn't have that city sour

When you're livin' in the land

of water towers

When you're livin' in the land

of water towers