Deep River

[Intro]

You were a cannonball, moving on the water

I was the moon and the river and the rapture

Mississippi cavalier crashing through the Mayqueen chandeliers

Oh, my [0:25?]

[Verse 1]

We left the river, headed to the city

Just two organ grinders, looking for a monkey

With tombstone hearts and Blacksmith hands

Aching just for being there on dry land

Clattering stone and rattling bones

Stepping to the beat of an old acetone

You and me, my baby blue

In the concrete jungle without our shoes

Oh, my [?]

[Verse 2]

You get to the City, you gotta get a job

And you'll walk those streets until your feet throb

White shirts, clean teeth, combed hair, tie

You'll still be at the bottom of the welfare line

I tried to be a weatherman, tried to mix drinks

Took out loans to learn to think

Pink pills fizzing up my brain

I stayed unemployed as the falling rain

Oh, my [?]

[Chorus]

Deep river bottom blues

Deep river bottom blues, yeah

[Verse 3]

Mr Banks said he could help but I could see his teeth

Clicking like a tiger before fresh meat

Compound interest, FDIC

Nothing in this town ever came for free

I soon missed the wind, blowing through the rushes

I soon missed the river song riding like a Duchess

Lost in someone else's prayer

Trapped between the cold earth and the air

Oh, my [?]

[Chorus]

Deep river bottom blues

Deep river bottom blues, yeah

[Instrumental]

[Verse 4]

In my blood, I could feel the tide

Pulling through me like a president's pride, I

Knew it was time to leave

Smell of the water coming through the trees

So we drank to the zealots, apostles and dreamers

That were poor as the patriots and parking meters

And flowed like a river full of gasoline

And all of the ice down in New Orleans, 'cause

There was no message I could find

No epiphany calling from the clear divine

Just broken screens and flying machines, in pieces on the ground

Oh, my [?]

[Chorus]

Deep river bottom blues

Deep river bottom blues, yeah

Oh, my [?]

[Outro]

You were a cannonball, moving on the water

I was the moon and the river and the rapture

Mississippi cavaliers crashing through the Mayqueen chandeliers