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Six Inches of Water

from Six Inches of Water (2021) by Anthony Toner

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Six Inches of Water

Coming home with a face so dirty,
your mother wouldn’t know you.
All week catching steel in the wind,
with the shipyard below you.
When Friday comes and my bones are sore,
I join the queue down at Templemore -
we get the chance to be as clean
as the day we were born.

‘Cause I live by the sweat of my brow,
like my father did before me.
He said, ‘son – you have to look your best,
or the world will just ignore ye’.
Just when you think you’re going to lose all hope,
you get a towel and a bar of soap,
lay back and let the working week
go down the drain.

CHORUS:
We get the same six inches of water -
the same six inches of water.
All the workers and the kings and queens,
they go in dirty and they come out clean.
We get the same six inches of water.

There’s a girl on McMaster Street -
we’re nearly going steady.
I clean the dirt from my fingernails,
and get my shoes ready.
I hear the hammers ringing in my dreams,
but I let it all go up in steam,
start thinking about the way we’re going to look
on the dancefloor

CHORUS (2)
We get the same six inches of water -
the same six inches of water.
We won’t care if we’re rich or not,
some like it cold, some like it hot.
We get the same six inches of water.

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from Six Inches of Water (2021), released July 19, 2021
Music and Lyrics by Anthony Toner & Brigid O'Neill

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