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Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2009

http://www.jackjohnsonmusic.com/


There's traffic in the sky
And it doesn't seem to be getting much better
There's kids playing games on the pavement
Drawing waves on the pavement
Shadows of the planes on the pavement
Its enough to make me cry
But that don't seem like it would make it feel better
Maybe its a dream and if I scream
It will burst at the seams
This whole place will fall to pieces
And then they'd say...

Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell
If you keep on adding stones
Soon the water will be lost in the well

Puzzle pieces in the ground
But no one ever seems to be digging
Instead they're looking up towards the heavens
With their eyes on the heavens
There are shadows on the way to the heavens
It's enough to make me cry
But that don't seem like it would make it feel better
The answers could be found
We could learn from digging down
But no one ever seems to be digging
Instead they'll say...

Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell
If you keep on adding stones
Soon the water will be lost in the well

Words of wisdom all around
But no one ever seems to listen
They're talking about their plans on paper
Building up from the pavement
There are shadows from the scrapers on the pavement
It's enough to make me sigh
But that don't seem like it would make it feel better
The words are still around
But the words are only sounds
And no one ever seems to listen
Instead they'll say

Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell
If you keep on adding stones
Soon the water will be lost in the well

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  • "If you keep adding stones, soon the water will be lost in the well"

    Means if you keep covering the earth in concrete, it's beauty will be lost forever. Excellent songwriting.

  • Fucking masterpiece! ;)

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  • listen to this song while watching this video: youtube.com/watch?v=UEDcOPVMV_­0&feature=related

  • @Cmmarti1 i dont think thats a good translation. it means is you keep adding info, the truth will be lost. its not so literal as that.

  • this isn't my music genre...

    but this awesome

  • my babys will listen to jack johnson instead of beethoven ♥

    

  • y does dis song hv to end!!

  • this is the greatest song of all time

  • @IIIrainman Actually he wrote it before 9/11 and they delayed releasing it because of the whole 9/11 thing. Heard it on a podcast thing

  • @cloudsinmycoffee24 its about 9/11- cool user name by the way!

  • Hello, I'm a Genious.

  • This song is so chill and probably the best song to just relax to, and its one of my favorites for that reason

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