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This song is about burnout and busyness and wanting to resist it and run to God for refreshment instead.

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Verse 1:
Thought I could go it alone, thought I could be different
But I'm just another soul that's walkin' vacant
I'm just a barren bucket at a well
I beg you, don't leave me empty

Verse 2:
Life has a bitter ring, it leaves me fractured
Far more than I could ever imagine
Just when my heart is full, water slips through a crack
and slow leaks until it's empty

Chorus:
I walk a desert road
Come with eyes that carry life
And oh Lord, give me sweet water
That will never run dry

Verse 3:
Be still my busy bones 'cause every hour
Is simply a mocking man screaming as you wither
Linger in River Rest, you've outdrawn yourself again
I beg you, don't leave here empty

Chorus:
I walk a desert road
Come with eyes that carry life
And oh Lord, give me sweet water
That will never run dry

Bridge:
Yes I confess that the hurry kills me
It drains me blind to Your beauty
It makes me numb to Your arms of mercy
It makes me look like a madman
Come with rest 'cause the hurry kills me
It drains me blind to Your beauty
It makes me numb to Your arms of mercy
It makes look like a madman
And makes You look like mirages

Chorus:
I walk a desert road
Come with eyes that carry life
And oh Lord, give me sweet water
That will never run dry

End Tag:
Just give me a little more water

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from Bare and Bones, released February 17, 2023

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Candace Coker Music Trinidad and Tobago

Candace Coker is a Trinidad-born artist who brings an evocative blend of poetry, gospel and musicality to the world of alternative-folk. Her sound carries with it a jazzy softness and a neo-soul grit, which she attributes to her love for the 1940s, as well as her Afro-Caribbean roots.

Her music is a call to experience life poetically, to revel in beauty and to chase the 'more' of life.
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