Water

Songs that reference or mention water.

Central theme

• The Bloodboat
• Cowtown - "Lives beneath the ocean", "I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea"
• Diving Board
• Drown The Clown
• I'll Sink Manhattan
• Indian Ocean
• Lake Monsters
• Last Wave
• Rowboat Mayor
• Snapping Turtle - About a pond with ducks and snapping turtles in it
• Underwater Woman
• Walk On Water
• When It Rains It Snows
• Whirlpool

Briefly mentioned

• Absolutely Bill's Mood - "And he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain"
• All Time What - "Partly submerged"
• Ana Ng - "Water spirals the wrong way out the sink"
• Answer - "And then it rained"
• Arkansas - "When the rising tide engulfs the shore / And the waves roll over Arkansas"
• Asheville - "When the flood waters reach where I lay / French Broad River will float me away"
• Au Contraire - "Hate to rain on your parade"
• The Biggest One - "The water running down that pipe"
• The Bright Side - "Among the rain"
• Burning Coffee - "Wonder why the sprinklers aren't on"
• Darling, The Dose - "So shake that rain outta your bad ear"
• Dear Old Plants - "Sun, seed and water"
• Erase - "Like a deep sea diver"
• How Now Dark Cloud? - "Attached to a lazy guy adrift on the sea"
• I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die - "We're doomed and we're drowned"
• It's Not My Birthday - "Well, the rain falls down without my help, I'm afraid / And my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent", "And the sound upon the roof is only water"
• John Postal - "John Postal out in the road (John Postal stands in the rain) / John Postal talks to himself (John Postal poured down the drain) / John Postal carried upstream (John Postal rushed out to sea) / John Postal rides on a wave (John Postal same fever dream)"
• Lazy - "And when it showers the bees and flowers / Will be my umbreller"
• Letterbox - "Run around in the rain"
• Let Your Hair Hang Down - "Did we order all these rain clouds"
• Lost My Mind - "Floating down a lazy river is my mind"
• Mario Speaks - "It's all water under the bridge"
• Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares - "And when it's raining they get complaining"
• My Man - "You're like the coasts of an ocean"
• Nanobots - "Driving on a tidal wave"
• The Neck Rolls Aren't Working - "The rain is falling upwards"
• Oh You Did - "What's that river of water doing pouring down the stairs?"
• Old Pine Box - "Over the falls / And into the drink"
• Out Of A Tree - "And it rains"
• Particle Man - "When he's underwater does he get wet? / Or does the water get him instead?"
• Photosynthesis - "Combines [CO₂] with water and exposes it to sunlight"
• Sensurround - "If I could swim under the water"
• Sleeping In The Flowers - "You declare that I have drowned"
• Solid Liquid Gas - "Water is a liquid"
• Starry Eyes - "While you were in the pool we were meeting with the boys upstairs"
• Thankful For Your Service - "Following the trail of footsteps from the standing water in the bathroom"
• Theme From Flood - "Why are the ocean levels rising up"
• They Might Be Giants (Song) - "They might be rain"
• This Is Only Going To Go One Way - "A peg-leg captain's ghost / Once said these words to me / When forced to choose between the devil / And the deep blue sea"
• This Land Is Your Land - "to the smoking water"
• Tippecanoe And Tyler Too - "Like the rush of mighty waters, onward it will go"
• Trucker's Coffee - "Let me tell you 'bout the rain", "Some say something slipped into our water supply / And every now and then, when our well gets dry"
• Turtle Songs Of North America - "Up to 5 miles across still water"
• Waves - "Cannonball into the pool makes waves"
• Women & Men - "There's nothing unexpected about the water giving out"
• You'll Miss Me - "It must be raining 'cause a man ain't supposed to cry"

Honorable mention

• Answer - "It may take an ocean of whiskey and time / To wash all of the letdown out of your mind"
• Cloisonné - "Now it's just raining pain / Pain in the form of a rain drop / Yes, a rain drop made of pain / Tell 'em the story, rain drop"; though it's a rain drop, it's not really made of water
• Flood - In addition to the name, the album art depicts an actual flood, which is composed entirely of water
• Super Cool - Mentions a "sea of reverie," which is likely just a figurative sea
• Worried Sleep - "I'd washed it all away"

See also

• Beach
• Sailing
• Sea
• Weather