Bleed Up a River

Words: Sherman Dorn, 2001
Music: "Drink up the River" (Kathy Mar, 1988)

I was working in a blood bank, reflecting on our needs
and the hundred million people whom we never even bleed.
They have reasons not to come here, both principled and worse,
and some of them would gross you out by the end of the second verse.
There are those with AIDS and BSE, hypertension and the flu.
There are those who faint at the sight of blood, or are anemic, too.
But the rest of us who are healthy and are walking all around
have got to bleed up a river for the whole darned town.

We've got to bleed up a river (2x)
We've got to bleed up a river for the whole darned town.
We've got to bleed up a river (2x)
We've got to bleed up a river for the whole darned town.

There are those who get in accidents, victims in a car.
There are those who need a transplant for their bodies to be on par.
There are those with aneurisms, blood vessels torn and burst,
and there are those whose bodies rupture from a bullet. That's the worst.
And we now, who are health, we don't have to feel their pain.
We can donate, and then eight weeks past, we can do it once again.
Know that blood banks only work when you and I go in, I've found.
We've got to bleed up a river for the whole darned town.

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