[Intro] Y'all can sit down now. This one's for my daddy. Wrote it on the drive up here, six years too late to sing it to him. Pearline — give me somethin' soft. [Verse 1] There's a season when the bayou pulls back And the bones of the boats come up black And a boy who drowned in '84 Comes home to the door The water goes low and it shows you what it took Every rusted-out truck, every name in the book And I stood on that bank in the mud and the sun Lookin' for you and you wasn't one [Verse 2] Mama said he went out at nine Said the wind come up, said he crossed the line Said they searched a week and then they let it lie And nobody said the word goodbye I was nineteen, I was hard and thin I said fine, then. Fine. Let the water win. And I packed up everything I own And I ain't been home [Chorus] Come up, come up, low water Show me what you're holdin' down I'm somebody's daughter Standin' on the drownin' ground I ain't askin' for forever I ain't askin' you to keep Just come up once, low water And let me get some sleep [Verse 3] She don't talk about it much no more She just plays the towns she's played before And every stage is a little bit dry land And every night she takes somebody's hand (I built a house outta strangers and songs) And every one of us knows where she's from (I got a family — Lord, I got a family —) And I ain't tellin' none of 'em what it cost [Chorus] Come up, come up, low water Show me what you're holdin' down I'm somebody's daughter Standin' on the drownin' ground I ain't askin' for forever I ain't askin' you to keep Just come up once, low water And let me get some sleep [Bridge] And I know he ain't comin' I have known it a long time I just want the river to say it Instead of leavin' it to be mine I want somebody else to carry it I want somebody else to weep I been holdin' it since I was nineteen And Lord, I am so tired And Lord, I need to sleep [Chorus] Come up, come up, low water Show me what you're holdin' down I'm somebody's daughter Standin' on the drownin' ground I ain't askin' for forever I ain't askin' you to keep Just come up once, low water And let me get some sleep [Outro] Just come up once. That's all.
