Bring Home That River! (Detroit)

from Where the Wasteland Ends by Poor Player

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Bring home that river! I am about to lose my mind
Bring home that river! What can your divining rod divine?

The fat man's debt must be socialized
Country's resources privatized
Plastic people idolized
I can’t take no more of the lies

Bring home that river! Tate hikes sky high
Bring home that river! My pipes are bone dry

But downtown is a playground
Where ballgame drunks can parade around
With a fake beach and canned sound
And a D T-shirt acting so proud

Bring home that river! From the tap, purified
Bring home that river! People's water, yours and mine

Gonna fill me up a big pickle jar
From the mayor’s own backyard
With the big companies they don't play hard
But on you and me it's all out war

Bring home that river! More than enough for you and I
Bring home that river! So full of blue I gone blind

The city is named for its Straits
But here is how that translates:
While their bought buddies bankrupt the states
The big predators they just lie in wait

Bring home that river! She got to draw a bath, my old wife
Bring home that river! We worked here our whole life

The army slaughtered the buffalo
So the Plains Sioux had food no more
A reservation only place left to go
I own this home but my city don't want me no more

Bring home that river! I am about to lose my mind
Bring home that river! What did your divining rod divine?

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from Where the Wasteland Ends, released April 19, 2019

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Poor Player Detroit, Michigan

Motor City folk rock Americana born of beverages, Poor Player takes to the stage with a hopped up grab bag of American riddles and laments. Saluting the guy flying a sign beside the highway exit, zigzagging through the post-industrial prairie, Poor Player is all about finding the roots beneath the rubble, the green beneath the ruin, the folk in the f*d up, & the beauty in the city gone to seed. ... more

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