Everything's Turning to White

[Verse 1]

Late on a Friday, my husband went up

To the mountains with three friends

They took provisions and bottles of bourbon

To last them all through the weekend

One hundred miles they drove

Just to fish in a stream

And there's so much water, so close to home

[Verse 2]

When they arrived, it was cold and dark

They set up their camp quickly

Warmed up with whiskey, they walked to the river

Where the water flowed past darkly

In the moonlight they saw the body

Of a girl floating face down

And there's so much water, so close to home

[Chorus]

When he holds me now, I'm pretending

I feel like I'm frozen inside

And behind my eyes, my daily disguise

Everything's turning to white

[Verse 3]

It was too hard to tell how long she'd been dead

The river was that close to freezing

But one thing for sure

The girl hadn't died very well to judge from the bruising

They stood there above her all thinking

The same thoughts at the same time

There's so much water, so close to home

[Verse 4]

So this is what they did:

They carried her downstream from their fishing

Between two smooth rocks they gently wedged her

After all, it was late, and they'd come a long way

The girl would keep; she was going nowhere

They stayed up there fishing for two days

They reported it on Sunday when they came back down

There's so much water, so close to home

[Chorus]

When he holds me now, I'm pretending

Nothing is working inside

And behind my eyes, my daily disguise

Everything's turning to white

[Verse 5]

The newspapers said that the girl had been strangled

To death and also molested

On the day of the funeral the radio reported

That a young man had been arrested

I went to the service a stranger

I drove past the lake out of town

There's so much water, so close to home

[Chorus]

When he holds me now I'm pretending

I feel like I'm frozen inside

And behind my eyes, my daily disguise

Everything's turning to white