How Can You Live In The Northeast Lyrics

How Can You Live In The Northeast lyrics

We heard the fireworks. Rushed out to watch the sky. Happy go lucky. Fourth of
July.

How can you live in the Northeast? How can you live in the South?
How can you build on the banks of a river when the flood water pours from the
mouth? How can you be a Christian? How can you be a Jew? How can you be a
Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu?

How can you?

Weak as the winter sun,
we enter life on earth. Names and religion come just after date of birth. Then
everybody gets a tongue to speak, and everyone hears an inner voice. A day at
the end of the week to wonder and rejoice.

If the answer is infinite
light, why do we sleep in the dark?

How can you live in the Northeast?
How can live in the South? How can you build on the banks of a river when the
flood water pours from the mouth? How can you tattoo your body? Why do you
cover your head? How can you eat from a rice bowl, the holy man only breaks
bread?

We watched the fireworks, 'til they were fireflies. Followed a
path of stars, over the endless skies.

How can you live in the Northeast?
How can you live in the South? How can you build on the banks of a river when
the flood water pours from the mouth?

I've been given all I wanted. Only
three generations off the boat. I have harvested and I've planted. I am wearing
my father's old coat.