[Hook] Water memory, water memory What if every drop got a history? Rain hit the earth, then it come back to me They ain’t taking the water, they taking the memory Water memory, water memory Bottle up the source, then they sell what was free Whole world thirsty while they own the streams If water don’t remember— Why they guarding everything? [Verse 1] Water been here longer than whoever drew the borders Same drop touched a mountain, fell again on somebody’s daughter Ocean turned to cloud, cloud came back as holy water So tell me how you own it just because you wrote an order? That’s slick. Rain falling free, somehow catching it got rules Meanwhile something leave the faucet that you wouldn’t give the pool They say, “Trust the system”, Koo But the system got pipes too And “safe at the plant” don’t mean safe when it finally get to you That’s a pipeline and a punchline Lead line, headline Tell me why clean water gotta travel through a red flag? They sell spring water with a mountain on the label Like the earth signed the deed and put the planet on the table Water got fingerprints—minerals tell locations Isotopes can tell you where it fell through precipitation when I say the water got a past, that ain’t imagination Every glass got geography dissolved in the conversation Now take it deeper— Body mostly water, blood moving information Womb full of water before we ever knew creation Every organ calling for it like internal irrigation controlling water ain’t a business— That’s controlling generations They don’t need the land if they purchase every aquifer Don’t need to own the farm if the farmer gotta answer ’em Pump it out the ground, put a logo and a cap on it Nature made the product— Somebody put the tax on it [Hook] Water memory, water memory What if every drop got a history? Rain hit the earth, then it come back to me They ain’t taking the water, they taking the memory Water memory, water memory Bottle up the source, then they sell what was free Whole world thirsty while they own the streams If water don’t remember— Why they guarding everything? [Verse 2] They call it shortage— I call it who got access Plenty water on the planet, Question is who got the assets That’s the difference. Can’t drink an ocean without taking out the salt Can’t reach an aquifer if somebody owns the vault So scarcity and ownership can dance the same waltz One hand yelling “crisis” While the other buys the lot That’s cold. Control what everybody need and everybody kneel You can survive without a diamond, Try a week without a meal Try some days without the water— Now you understand the deal Funny they call oil “liquid gold” When water’s how you live And here’s the twist— They bottle what was falling out the sky with no receipt Sell “pure” back to the people by the liter in the street Why everybody buying filters ’cause they don’t trust what they drink? That’s one hell of a business— Make the source feel incomplete [Hook] Water memory, water memory What if every drop got a history? Rain hit the earth, then it come back to me They ain’t taking the water, they taking the memory Water memory, water memory Bottle up the source, then they sell what was free Whole world thirsty while they own the streams If water don’t remember— Why they guarding everything? Water memory… Water memory…
