Rosanne Cash Songs - The Sunken Lands Lyrics

Rosanne Cash - The Sunken Lands

Rosanne Cash - The Sunken Lands Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The River & the Thread
Released: 2014

The Sunken Lands Lyrics

Five cans of paint in the empty fields
The dust reveals

The children cry, the work never ends
There’s not a single friend

Who will hold her hand in The Sunken Lands?

The mud and tears melt the cotton balls
It’s a heavy toll
Oh oh

His words are cruel and they sting like fire
Like the devil’s choir
Oh oh

But who will hold her hand in the sunken lands?

The river rises and she sails away
But she could never stay
Oh oh

Now her work is done in the sunken lands
There’s five empty cans

Writer/s: JOHN B LEVENTHAL, ROSANNE CASH
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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The Sunken Lands

This song provides details about Rosanne's family's life, centering on her father John's mother Carrie; the title comes from the area where her father grew up in Arkansas. Roseanne told the UK newspaper The Sun: "I began thinking about the lives of women back then like my grandmother. She picked cotton. The men picked cotton but the women picked cotton and kept charge of the kids. Her husband was not very nice."

She added: "My grandmother had a hard, hard life but she never became bitter. She was a very cheerful woman and had fortitude like I can't imagine."