///*****/// ///Don't Let the Water Go Cold ///Lyrics © 2026 Joshua Sloan ///Kindness Matters Music Productions ///*****/// [Intro | lone piano and bamboo flute | building fast | band crashes in] Beyond the steam there's a town still standing [Verse 1 | restrained, guitar held back] One word painted on the curtain Just the sign that means hot water Shoes lined up inside the doorway Grandmother and mother, daughter A hundred years of steam has settled In the timber and the tile There are no strangers in that water We have all been here a while [Pre-Chorus | building, drums driving] Tear it down or build it new Nobody asked you to Nobody asked you to [Chorus | huge, soaring, layered harmonies] Don't let the water go cold Don't let the water go cold Beyond the steam there's a town still standing A hundred years was never bought or sold Save it now, save this water Don't let the water go cold [Verse 2 | restrained again, bass carrying it] The young ones go and don't come back here One, and then another one Waving from the station platform Till the waving's finally done Sixty three have gone dark on us Thirty years, and twelve hold on One of them is ours, still burning When it goes, the town is gone [Pre-Chorus | building harder] Tear it down or build it new Nobody asked you to Nobody asked you to [Chorus | huge, soaring, layered harmonies] Don't let the water go cold Don't let the water go cold Beyond the steam there's a town still standing A hundred years was never bought or sold Save it now, save this water Don't let the water go cold [Bridge | strip to piano and voice | intimate, then rising] There's a monk who's lived here always He has watched them all go by Decades standing on that platform Waving every young one goodbye Fifteen million just to break it Fifty million more to build Don't tear it down. Repair it. A new heart in the old bones The future's hands on the old form Up the valley at the temple The bathhouse is a sacred hall This town has been keeping a temple And never knew at all [Final Chorus | biggest | full band, gang vocals join] Don't let the water go cold Don't let the water go cold Beyond the steam there's a town still standing A hundred years was never bought or sold Save it now, save this water Don't let the water go cold [Outro | gang vocal chant | taiko under it | fading] 守れ 守れ この湯を守れ 守れ 守れ この湯を守れ Don't let the water go cold [End]
