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Rosanne Cash
The River & The Thread
The Sunken Lands

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The Sunken Lands

Release date: 14th January 2014

From The River & The Thread

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About This Track

"The Sunken Lands" is a track by Rosanne Cash, from the album The River & The Thread , released 14th January 2014. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Rosanne Cash

Rosanne Cash

Lyrics

The Sunken Lands

[Verse 1]

Five cans of paint

And the empty fields

The dust reveals

[Verse 2]

The children cry

The work never ends

There's not a single friend

[Chorus]

Who will hold her hand

In the sunken lands?

[Verse 3]

The mud and tears

Melt the cotton bolls

It's a heavy toll, oh-oh

[Verse 4]

His words are cruel

And they sting like fire

Like the devil's choir, oh-oh

[Chorus]

But who will hold her hand

In the sunken lands?

[Verse 5]

The river rises

And she sails away

She could never stay, oh-oh

[Verse 6]

Now her work is done

In the sunken lands

There's five empty cans

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Track details

From The River & The Thread

2014

Album

The River & The Thread

Release year

2014

—50,000 Watts
—A Feather’s Not a Bird
—Biloxi
—Etta's Tune
—Money Road
—Modern Blue
—Night School
—The Long Way Home
—The Sunken Lands
—When The Master Calls the Roll
—Tell Heaven
—Two Girls
—World of Strange Design
—Your Southern Heart

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Credited: Catherine Russell, Curtis King, Gavin Lurssen, John Leventhal, Reuben Cohen, Rick Depofi, Tabitha Fair