[Intro – Gospel Choir]
Keep the water running…
Keep the lights on…
Another day, another road…
We keep moving on.
[Verse 1]
Woke up before the sunrise, boots beside the bed,
Another hundred problems already in my head,
Phone starts ringing, somebody’s got a leak,
Another long day and it’s only just the week.
Tools in the van, coffee going cold,
Been doing this long enough to feel a little old,
People see the invoice, they don’t see the strain,
The crawl spaces, roof heat, trenches in the rain.
They don’t see the nights when the numbers don’t work,
Or the pressure on your shoulders when you’re running your own work,
Trying to build a future, trying to pay the crew,
Trying to keep your word when there’s too much to do.
[Chorus – Choir]
Keep that water flowing,
Keep pushing through the pain,
Through the heat and through the hard times,
We get up and go again.
Working with these two hands,
Building something true,
It’s more than pipes and fittings,
It’s the life that gets you through.
[Verse 2]
I’ve seen young blokes start with brand-new boots,
Standing there nervous, barely knowing their tools,
Then the years start moving and the lessons come fast,
Every little mistake leaves a story in the past.
You learn there ain’t a drawing for everything you find,
Sometimes you need patience, sometimes use your mind,
A customer says, “Mate, it only started today,”
Then you open up the wall and forty years falls away.
Blocked drain Friday, half past four,
Everybody else is heading out the door,
But somebody’s got no water, family waiting inside,
So you keep on working, swallow your pride.
[Chorus – Choir]
Keep that water flowing,
Keep pushing through the pain,
Through the heat and through the hard times,
We get up and go again.
Working with these two hands,
Building something true,
It’s more than pipes and fittings,
It’s the life that gets you through.
[Verse 3]
I used to chase the big jobs, towers in the sky,
Commercial sites where the cranes stood high,
Thought that was the dream, thought that was the goal,
Till maintenance taught me how to really solve.
Now every day’s different, every call unknown,
You walk into a problem and you work it out alone,
A leak behind a cupboard, hot water running cold,
You listen to the building and the story that it told.
And maybe one day when I finally slow down,
I’ll think about the miles that I drove around town,
All the people that I met, every job that went wrong,
And somehow all those hard days made me strong.
[Bridge – Spoken]
It ain’t glamorous.
It ain’t easy.
But there’s something about fixing what’s broken…
And leaving it better than you found it.
[Final Chorus – Choir]
Keep that water flowing,
Keep pushing through the pain,
Through the long days and the hard years,
We get up and go again.
Built it with these two hands,
Every scar and every bruise,
It’s more than being a plumber…
It’s the life we chose to choose.
[Outro]
Another sunrise…
Another call…
Another chance to make it right.
Plumber’s gospel.