Backwater, NW Songtext
von Menno Versteeg

People magazines
Scripture for preteens
Pictures of New York
City in lights
15 and dreaming
Every way of leaving
Leaning on the windowsill
Of my bedroom at night

A lovers heart is breaking slowly
I′m following these old back roads with the radio on
Hands on the wheel are shaking and lonely
Backwater nowhere, it's time to come home


November night bus
Port Authority arrivals
Sounds so romantic
′Til you see what's going down
The dawn was breaking
I felt born again
A street magician's trick
On kids from small towns

A lovers heart is breaking slowly
I′m following these old back roads with the radio on
Hands on the wheel are shaking and lonely
Backwater nowhere, it′s time to come home

Backwater
Backwater nowhere
Your river sings a sweet song
Take me home, take me home
Backwater
Backwater nowhere
A porch light in the distance
Like an angel
Take me home


Jamie had a one room apartment
Let me live on his floor
I got a cash job in Manhattan
Doing some rich guy's chores
Good times come easy
And rich guys come quick
The money got better
And the drugs got thick

Backwater
Backwater nowhere
The river sings a sweet song
Take me home, take me home
Backwater
Backwater, nowhere
A porch light in the distance
Like an angel
Take me home
I′m following the river
Take me home
Take me home