The River

She ran until her face

Was numb with cold

And wore a cotton gown

That blazed the night, untold

She ran until her feet

Refused to hold

So heavy a heart for someone

Merely ten years old

And when she reached the river

Her knees began to shiver

Her head with pounding voices from home

Behind her was a vision

A painful apparition

Of a darker world that no one should know

Somebody's bed

Will never be warm again

The river will keep this friend

This somebody's bed

Will never be warm again

No, never again

She dived beneath

The water's icy skin

Hoping the cold would kill

The smell of angry gin

And her eyes grew wider

Than they'd ever been

Just wishing the numbness

To cut deeper with its pins

And as her body lay there

She decided to stay there

'Till darkness came to pull her away

And beautifully she sank

As upriver was the bank

Where some bodiless troubles would stay

Somebody's bed

Will never be warm again

The river will keep this friend

Somebody's bed

Will never be warm again

No, never again

Somebody's bed

Will never be warm again

The river will keep this friend

This somebody's bed

Will never be warm again

No, never again

No, never again