Go Down Moses - Natalie Merchant

Moving on, moving on

Isn’t that what I’m supposed to do?

Just hold it back and keep moving on

Pushing on, pushing on

Isn’t that what I’m supposed to do?

But it’s so hard to keep pushing on

I’m moving on, moving on

Isn’t that what everybody tells me I gotta do?

But it’s so hard moving on without you

Every morning waking in a fever wet and shaking

My heart inside me pounding, muddy water all around me

Cold, shocked and speechless, can’t anybody reach us

And why, oh God, why?

Go down, go down, Moses

Go down to the city of New Orleans

Go part the muddy water

Let your people cross over

Go down!

I’m moving on, moving on

That’s what I’m trying to do

Just holding back and moving on

Keeping on, keeping on

That’s what I’m trying so hard to do

But it’s so hard keeping on without you

Gone and lost my patience with this hopeless situation

Yeah, I’m alive, I’m a lonely sole survivor

Spared me for some reason so I’m picking up the pieces

But why?

Oh God, why?

Go down, go down, Moses

Go down to the city of New Orleans

Go part the muddy water

Let your people cross over

Go down!