When you hearin' the water, you feel like a turtle
Releasin' your tension, the stress and disorder
It's big in America, Stephanie, Erica
Both of them suffer from livin' in hairy 'cause
Livin' is very competitive, hasslin' creditors, hazardous accidents
Driving with negligence, too many beverages
People got too many things on they lettuces
TV's deadliest, professin' the ugliest: war, war, war, WAR!
What the hell you keep on killin' me for?
Please, won't you come and bend down low?
Let me tell you what little I know
And if it's worth somethin', spread it indeed
Like shit and vomit that's under your feet
I was born in a pot, boilin' black and hot
Waitin' to be tasted and rappin' a lot
But justice would not come and eat my flesh
Instead, I had poverty to feed my stress
Until my life became an ode to the gun
Not needed, like a overcoat to the sun
So, I thought I was just made to exist
Not to live or change and resist
But fear will have you believin' fear
Paralyzed have you bleedin' tears
This is the therapy needed, so use it
Music is water, you know what my proof is?
People need music like they need excuses
People need water like Kanye needs Jesus
So wash it down (wash it down)
Wash it down (wash it down) [Repeat: x7]
I know you stressin'
This is a little meditation for you to relax
And jump in the pool, and, you know, sink and sink!
My people drum on water
Drink on water
Live on water
Die for water
My people drum on water
Drink on water
Live on water
Wash it down (live) was written by K’naan.
K’naan released Wash it down (live) on Mon Jan 01 2007.