One Drop (Wishing Well) by David Bowden

Wishing Well - Single by David Bowden

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One Drop (Wishing Well)
by David Bowden

Album: Wishing Well - Single

There is a drop that is needed
In the land where clean water has receded
A drop on the tongues' dry land
Where government funds and hands are tied to the back pockets of the thirsty sand
and their eye sockets fixed on their spry dockets which sign them to sky rockets lifting them out of the parched paper novel where the dying log their struggle for one drop just wishing. Well, these drops are better than none.

There is a problem that has gone unsolved
An unbalanced equation that has evolved
To the point where numbers can't get involved
Because they can't explain how one drop just dissolves
The water crisis problem around which death has revolved

Some things, just don't add up

I've done the math
And 1 + 15 + 5 +2 + 4 + 8 +1 still equals zero
1 15 year old boy walks 5 hours a day with 2 Jerry cans to get 4 gallons of water for his family of 8 to use for 1 day
And they still don't have one drop of clean water

I've done the math
And billions of dollars does not equal one days work for struggling fathers
That's Bono's billions, and Larry's millions not coming close to the work of an impoverished civilian
Because when water's not on tap as much as corruption and greed
It means a five hour disruption to get one thing you need
And the hours spent watching feet bleed to reach knee deep ponds where bacteria breeds could be spent working to buy what your family eats
Because the billions of dollars aren't reaching as far as the pavilion of haulers marching with jars
The equation is unbalanced

I've done the math
One school year subtracted by one clean pool near has distracted generations who'll never hear the classroom's scrub to remove the fool's veneer leaving nations in frustration living off nothing but poverty inflating vocations
443 million days of school are missed by children walking water like a mule
No close water
Means they have to walk farther
Means no education for the daughter
Means the continuous walk toward the unseen slaughter

I've done the math
Half the world's hospital wards are soaked by people who drink from an unclean source
No cancer or swine
No plague or line of STD or mental disease or diabetes comes close to the 80% of sickness being born in water overseas

We are killing the world with the gold in our sinks
I've done the math
And I've seen the floods that America drinks
Every day each of us uses 150 gallons or more
While each African only uses 4
What we use in a day they use in a month
What they make last 24 hours we use in 30 seconds in our showers
Something just doesn't add up

So we have to change the equation
Change the way we look at the whole situation
So that our relation with death's proliferation
Might lead to the donation of salvation in the appropriate location
Let's change the quotations of unclean water's dictation
Creating invitations for our hearts combination
Until we change our hesitation from a guilty fascination
From our conscience's accusations
To a completed obligation of humanities conservation

It's time for One Drop Mathematics

You see
One drop can't stop the world from going thirsty
The One drop mathematic must employ symbiotic mercy
That's one drop across the plots of seas
Sent from one basic human providing one basic human need
One drop mathematics cancels out the impossibility of solving problems globally
By one person recognizing one person's humanity
One drop hasn't got what it takes to fill the ocean of oppressions mistakes
But realizes the significance of the ripple it makes

One drop algorithms count numbers like tears
One dollar here means one person gets clean water for a year
Luckily, some things just don't add up

One drop formula's are challenging the foundations of oppressions' equations
We are breaking new ground in the field of trigonometry where you and them and me form a triangle equilaterally in what mathematics deemed an impossibility our unity solves the problem perfectly

You see I've studied the path of One drop math
I found the text book for One drop mathematics
In the attics of Teresa's homes that she built out of the broken tomes of lives that she quilted together with every patch of each person to which she roamed
I found the homework for one drop mathematics
In the charismatic reform of democratic storms of inequality, who had to write an essay with her life that proved that one bus seat equaled a nation of change
I found the answer key for one drop mathematics
In the one of three that some may see as a fanatic who became ecstatic over a widow's penny, but was emphatic in his judgment of the dramatic donation of aristocratic prosperity

All we need is a drop
Just one
Because we are dealing with those who are dealing with none
So please don't get discouraged before you've begun
Because there is eternal significance in the mathematics of one

A man on trial knows the power of one word
A mute man knows the desire he feels to be heard
A street walker knows the importance of one dollar
A soldier knows the pain of one red bullet's color
An addict knows the lust for one deal
The starving know the meaning of one meal
The farmer knows the importance of one crop
And the thirsty know the significance of even one drop

Well I am one drop
Through high waters and hell
But together
Here's wishing
that we will be the well