Maria Daines ~ The River

A song we recorded as a demo many years ago and forgot about, recently we found it again and decided to finish it.

‘The River’

Yeah what’s a little time in the acres a’ rhyme n’ what’s been eatin’ yah these last days always it’s leavin’ talk
An’ who’s the one to say shoulda been me to run an’ how my gonna do that with two kids an’ a rent man to pay, ahh save the jaw
Just this past week you was fixin’ to stay n’ why can’t you love me like you did yesterday
Ahh peaches n’ cream some beautiful dream, how it you used to be, just you an’ me

Well dollar a dime that’s me I ain’t kind but I hooked up young seems I did wrong, it’s lost on me
An’ how d’you find tomorrow in a sea of brave souls all bought on trust n’ made a’ rust that’s how it’s always been
An’ this feels black when I’m blue n’ raw, some souls never see an open door
Why can’t it be gold, somebody to hold, but it ain’t you no more…

And the river slides to the west, that’s all I’m gonna say now, I did my best
And you… with your break in your heart, well how you gonna hold me now
Now we’re apart…

Stop botherin’ folks with your eyes on the coast n’ take a slug a JD cos you ain’t hurtin’ me
Keep yah chainsaw looks, I got love on the rocks, kids got school don’t know all the rules, pack up you’re leavin’ me
Too many lies got a hold of your eyes, it’s leavin’ us dear don’t you see we’ve disappeared, oh it’s too late to pray I can’t love you today, oh…oh but I need you here

And the river slides to the west, that's all I gotta say now, I did my best
And you... with your break in your heart, well how you gonna hold me now
Now we’re apart

Have mercy on the soldier of a man he can’t hold yah he’s a man in a man’s world, hitchin’ up, fixin’ up life, with a woman to hold him in a bliss of those ties and I need him like blood in my veins but he ain’t never gonna be right
While freedom clings to the young an’ the justice is done in the mother of a song we can’t all belong, but speakin’ of a little love baby, I’ve had enough

And the river slides to the west, that’s all I gotta say now, I did my best
And you… with your break in your heart, well how you gonna hold me now
Now we’re apart
Oh the river, oh it slides to the west, that’s all I gotta say now, I did my best
And you… with your break in your heart, well how you gonna hold me now
Now we’re apart…

© Maria Daines/Paul Killington

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