Sweet Water - Coldstone Records

There's a kind of place that remembers you — a river you walked beside with red dust on your ankles and green vines on your skin, where the daylight drowned in its spin and someone told you "this is forever" before forever slipped away. "Sweet Water" is an afro-cinematic ritual song built around one call: "Come to me, sweet water." It's about returning to the river through every season — the heat of the first verse, then first frost on the palm leaves, white breath in the air, your hand on the surface with ice under your palm. You shout to the river, and the river answers calm. Around the stone, tongues of fire and drums like hearts pounding home, a choir in words you can't translate but feel in your chest: "Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa." And underneath it all, the deepest reason to sing: "We keep singing / So it remembers us." For anyone who's ever gone back to the same water, hoping it still knows their name. What's the river in your life — the place you keep coming back to when everything else is slipping away? Tell me about it in the comments. Find the original on Suno: ▶ Follow Coldstone Records: https://suno.com/@coldstonerecords ▶ Sweet Water: https://suno.com/song/1d2bfaf3-37b1-4... LYRICS [Verse 1] Red dust on my ankles Green vines on my skin We walk where the river Drowns the daylight in its spin Mist on our shoulders Gold in the spray You say "this is forever" Till forever slips away [Pre-Chorus] Hear it slow Hear it stumble Silver turning Hard as stone [Chorus] Come to me Sweet water Come to me Sweet water Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa (hey) Come to me Sweet water Come to me Sweet water Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa [Verse 2] First frost on the palm leaves White breath in the air We trace old circles Frozen footsteps everywhere Your hand on the surface Ice under your palm We shout to the river But the river answers calm [Bridge] Tongues of fire Round the stone Drums like hearts Pounding home (oh) Every echo Locks in glass We keep singing So it remembers us [Chorus] Come to me Sweet water Come to me Sweet water Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa (oh yeah) Come to me Sweet water Come to me Sweet water Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa Zeebaba arakama mote ackawa