Mister pull up a chair 

I got time for tears 

Tell me all the stories that you never did 

Of the salty south 

The Seminoles held out 

While Geronimo died in a lonely jail 



A thousand tides, and 

A thousand waves 

Takin' it all away 



It'll come back in 

We'll be gone by then 

And it's a miracle we ever learned to live 



Drain that land 

For a better plan 

Sugarcane and the civil man 

But now the ringin' dead them pines 

Planted in that time 

We gonna keep on killin' till they get it right 



A thousand tides, and 

A thousand waves 

Takin' it all away 



It'll come back in 

We'll be gone by then, oh 

And it's a miracle we ever learned to live 



I remember the wind 

As it was settlin' 

And every sun goin' down was a picture then 

But we look back at 'em framed 

They all look the same 

There's no sense of time, no sense of pain 



A thousand tides, and 

A thousand waves 

Takin' it all away 



And it'll come back in 

We'll be gone by then, oh 

And it's a miracle we ever learned to give