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