Bruce Hornsby › Lyrics › The Tide Will Rise

Sometimes I get lucky most times I come up short
Got to pull up the lines got to move around the bend
They say it’s a dying breed and they say it’s going to disappear
Nothing I can do, oh but pull up the load again

The tide will rise and the tide will fall
We’ll be out on the water before the break of dawn
The tide will rise and the tide will fall
Oh, we’ll be working on the water
When the long, long day is gone

Full moon it was always best keep a little and you sell the rest
Living on hope what the seed is sown again
Red sky in the evening better times are coming up they say
Well, why do I feel like it’s all coming to an end

The tide will rise and the tide will fall
We’ll be out on the water before the break of dawn
The tide will rise and the tide will fall
Oh, we’ll be working on the water
When the long, long day is gone

When the seed is broken nothing left to grow on
When you lose the seed it’s hard to bring it on back
Never bowed to no one always went my own way
Broke down, run around, but I won’t run away
And the tide will rise

The tide will rise and the tide will fall
We’ll be out on the water before the break of dawn
The tide will rise and the tide will fall
Oh, we’ll be working on the water
When the long, long day is gone

The tide will rise, the tide will rise