10000 Maniacs - Poison In The Well lyrics

[ music: dennis drew/words: natalie merchant ]<br><br><br>Tell me what's gone wrong.<br>I tilt my head there, under the faucet, but when I turn it on -- dry as paper.<br>Call the neighbors.<br>Who's to blame for what's going on? <br>In the dark without a clue I'm just the same as you.<br><br>O, they tell us there's poison in the well,<br>That someone's been a bit untidy and there's been a small spill.<br>Not a lot, no, just a drop.<br>But there you are mistaken, you know you are.<br>I wonder just how long they knew our well was poisoned but they let us just drink on.<br><br>O, they tell us there's poison in the well,<br>That someone's been a bit untidy and there's been a small spill.<br>All that it amounts to is a tear in a salted sea.<br>Someone's been a bit untidy, they'll have it cleaned up in a week.<br>But the week is over and now it's grown into years since I was told that I should be calm, there's nothing to fear here.<br>But I drank that water for years, my wife and my children.<br><br>Tell me, where to now, if your fight for a bearable life can be fought and lost in you backyard? <br><br>O, don't tell us there's poison in the well,<br>That someone's been a bit untidy, that there's been a small spill.<br>All that it amounts to is a tear in a salted sea.<br>Someone's been a bit untidy, they'll have it cleaned up in a week.