Bought a house from a man in New YorkThis house had four small apartments in it when he got it in '78Said he had seen children grow old and elderly people die in each little apartmentSaid he didn't change the wooden floors for sixteen years 'cause he knew where the scuff came fromWe talked for a bit and he took me around the corner and told me everything had gone down, down stream from himLike that cold water of his life had gone up his back, down his front, and around his legsAnd before he could drink any of it, it'd already passed him byI went home after drinkin' with him a bit, made a pallet and a fire on the floor and closed my eyes right there in the middle of one of the coldest nights Manhattan had seen all winterI imagined my dog Jack and me back home cuttin' through some Oklahoman landscape with greens, moisture, and heat and finding some screen right there in the clearin'He jumped, chasin' something naturally, and I just let that water run past my shoulders under my neck and under my feetAnd down, down streamEvery good and bad thing that ever happend to me floating down, down streamThey're just floatin', the Tulsa bars and all the throw up in 'em, the ducks we killed, the fights we hadThe New York 3ams, the piano through my neighbors wall and the Italian restaurant voices mashin' together through the opposite oneMy mother's couch that I sang her songs onThe African desert heat, runnin' from the police, and my father's swollen prideThey're just floatin' by, every woman I have ever loved and every man I have ever called a brotherThe New Year's fireworks and the July Fourth's too, every failure and every ugly, little victoryScreamin' off the Grand Canyon and hearin' one of my best friends have gotten into a wreck under some cold, dark western skyMy sister laughin', the streets of London, and my band playin' sweet notes in front of a hundred thousand peopleI took a big gulp and I wondered if all that water led to more streams and those led to some big ocean somewherePrayed all that suffering and all those belly laughs led to some big ocean somewhereAs soon as I took that big gulp, my eyes opened to a fire in that livin' room and the fire department came and hydrant filthy New York water was goin' up my back, down my front and down, down streamAnd so were we
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Zachary Lane Bryan (Okinawa, 2 de abril de 1996) es un cantautor estadounidense. Su álbum debut, American Heartbreak, alcanzó la posición número cinco en el Billboard 200.
== Primeros años ==
Bryan nació en Okinawa, Japón, mientras su familia estaba…
