Name: Across the Water
Duration: 7 min 29 s
Channel: Scott Gordon
Description: "Across the Water" is a song by PANARCHY. Hard-driving progressive violin rock over a 6/8 beat

Across the Water

PANARCHY

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Hard-driving progressive violin rock over a 6/8 beat

PANARCHY

PANARCHY is the vehicle for performing the more progressive rock songs written by Scott Gordon. The band was started by Scott Gordon (keyboards/vocals/guitars)

Welcome to PANARCHY - proof positive that the craft of songwriting - intelligent, poignant lyrics, and innovative but sonorous harmony of voices and instruments - is not dead. PANARCHY is for me what UTOPIA was for Todd Rundgren. A real band for the band, in-between my own acoustic solo performing and recording.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Progressive Rock

Charts

Peak #963

Peak in subgenre #113

Author

Scott Gordon

Rights

1992, 2008 - Scott Gordon

Uploaded

July 30, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.0 MB • 56 kbps • 7:29

Story behind the song

I wrote this song at the 500th anniversary of the Columbus voyage to America.  It's written from the viewpoint of the Native Americans who were overrun by the superior firepower of the invader.  I re-wrote and upgraded the song years later to reflect a more general idea about being invaded in any place or time.  You may recognize the feel inspired by Kansas (Portrait - He Knew) using the same kind of intense driving beat.

Lyrics

ACROSS THE WATER 					
1992 Denver CO, 2008 Costa Rica

He comes Across the Water
From a land enslaved by kings
With hearts that are filled with lust for gold
Taking all our strongest warriors
Put them on the longest voyage
For all the slaves that can be sold
	-Somebody stop them
	-Do you know of a way?
	-They're killing our children
	-We've got to get away

He wears a heavy sword
He'll chop your hands and feet
He says that God is on his side
You'd better take the children
And keep a warrior with them
You'd better find some place to hide
	-No understanding
	-Darkness and pain
	-Nothing left standing
	-Tell me - what will remain?

It's coming around again
There's more armored soldier men
So few are left to take them on
But every life is sacred
And so this gets my hatred
Until these killing fields are gone
	-How far we have fallen
	-How can we survive?
	-But the Spirit is calling 
	-To be Free and Alive

Across the Water - 1992, 2008 - Scott Gordon

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