Amber Cascades
Written by Dewey Bunnell, ©1976
Found on Hideaway, America Live, Highway, The Definitive America, and The Complete Greatest Hits.

Amber cascades all over today
Then we walk on a crooked catwalk
Only to be delayed
Bubbles of blue burst into two
Eaten up by the incoming tide
Of the new

Then we call to the man who walks on the water
We talk of a plan to stop all the slaughter in view
It's in view

Granite charades are played in the rain
Till we fall through a sand castle window
To avoid the pain
Summer canoe paddles up to you
'Cause it's time for another beer run
Or something that's equally true

Then we call to the man who walks on the water
We talk of a plan to stop all the slaughter in view

Then we call to the man who walks on the water
We talk of a plan to stop all the slaughter in view
It's in view

Highway Highlight (from the box set booklet) Bunnell's "Amber Cascades" was Hideaway's next single, peaking at #75. Its jazz-pop melody and opaque lyrics invited comparisons with "Tin Man." "I think I started with the title," says Dewey. "I was trying to get the feeling of sunlight. At that point I knew I could write the rock kind of song, the love kind of song, and the ambiguous word-picture song. And with 'Amber Cascades' I was trying to do an ambiguous word-picturey kind of thing. 'We call to the man who walks on the water'--that was some sort of semireligious thing. The song had a lot of rhyming, a lot of imagery, but I don't think it was that cohesive."