River

The river is my saviour 'Cause she used to be a cloud She's happy just to lay there When she used to be so proud And even when she dries up A thousand years from now I'll lay myself beside her And call her name out loud The river is my saviour The only one I'll ever need Wash my head when I've been sinning Wash my knuckles when they bleed Protect me from my neighbor All this jealously and greed Take the body to the delta Hide the weapon in the weeds But now I'm tired and a little bit confused Regarding what I meant to do, and what I did The men I've hired They all seem to be afraid of me They turn their eyes away from me like kids The river hears my secrets Things I cannot tell a soul Like the children that I've orphaned And the fortune that I stole The neighbor who asked questions 'Til he washed up on the shoal But I've done the law some favors So nobody has to know Now I'm tired, and I just can't get to sleep I've been awoke from among these sheep For all my life The lake of fire, it consumes me in my dreams And last night, I woke up screaming at my wife The river is my saviour She's running to the sea And to reach her destination Is to simply cease to be And running 'til you're nothing Sounds a lot like being free So I'll lay myself inside her And I'll let her carry me