Rock Me On The Water

Jackson Browne at the BBC, 1978



Oh people, look around you
The signs are everywhere
You've left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care
You're lost inside your houses
There's no time to find you now
While your walls are burning and your towers are turning
I've goota leave your here and try to get down to the sea somehow

The road is filled with homeless souls
Every woman, child and man who have no idea where they will go, but they'll help you if they can
Now everyone must some thought that's gonna pull them through somehow
Well, the fires are raging hotter and hotter
But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now

Oh people, look among you
It's there your hope must lie
There's a sea bird above you
Gliding in one place like Jesus in the sky
We all must do the best we can
And then hang on to that Gospel plow
When my life is over, I'm going to stand before the Father
But the sisters of the sun are going to rock me on the water now