Up A Creek Without You (Re-Write)
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Lyrics
Up A Creek Without You
© c.bard/d.lenahan 5/2005
Up in the mountains where the water was cold.
I was sick and tired of doing what I was told.
So you put me in control of our old canoe.
So, I shot the rapids down the Whitewater Ridge.
You Saved me from drowning and then you said,
" Son, Life's about choices and living with what you choose."
(chorus)
I was wild as the river,
that the rapids run through.
You knew you couldn't tame me if you tightened the screws.
It took all your faith to let me go.
You prayed one day I'd row with the flow.
My pride wouldn't let me say it, but its true.
I'd be up a creek without you.
Lost in the world, 20 years old.
By the seat of my pants and out of control.
Tearin' up eight mile road, in the gold Chevelle.
You always told me but I didn't learn.
Was it pump on the brakes or gas into the turn?
Hit that patch of ice and I was scared as hell.
(chorus)
(bridge)
"It's over in an instant
Son, when things get this intense.
Time's got a way of slowing down and stuff starts making sense.
You clearly got two choices
Turn toward the river or the road.
Since you're skidding towards the river
That's the way you gotta go."
I felt the rear end catch and I got control.
I left the stubborn boy behind,
So I could live with what I chose.
(chorus II)
I was as wild as the river,
That the rapids run through.
You knew you couldn' tame me if you tightened the screws.
It took all your faith to let me go.
Finally learned to row with the flow.
My pride can let me say it, cause it's true.
I'd be up a creek without you.
