She came round here like ravens Little diamonds on water There's blood on your lips Kissed by the ruin glow of your lust Captured in your arms Dead
you Shines the morning dew light That never went away Like this river That has not decided If it's a river of the mountain If it's a river that flows
we could do it over and over and over again who knows, baby, but someday maybe you came along and shattered everything that mattered chorus: sometimes it?s like a river
down in Tupelo, singing that river boat song She is a dancer, a river queen She'll teach them gamblers most anything She's been down in Tupelo, singing that river boat song
?s gather, heard their banjo?s brace the blade. Heard them sing about the river, called it the lazy man?s parade. Sing me that song about the river,
river mud pulls me further down John's at my side, but he's not noticing that I'm drowning. The slightest move and this river mud pulls me further
Can't lose the taste of this river mud, Black water in my lungs. They say you can't step in the same river twice Well I've been stepping in this river
this river mud Pulls me further down John's at my side, But he's not noticing that I'm drowning The slightest move and this river mud Pulls me further
Sit back, no song is written, it's nothing you thought of yourself. It's just a ghost that came unbidden to this house. This infection gets stronger
Sam, bless him, has died and left this home, the woodchucks running wild, the bushes overgrown. Slip unseen into the skein of trees, slide through dusky
your lips, you shake and shiver. Some animal sips where the river flows from a black little crack in a stone. To a crackle in a radio song, sing along
to decide if they should leave the things that keep them crying. And some will rise and keep on living with open eyes, with minds forgiven. The river