Down to the River

I got low down in the water

I let the current guide my bones

I’ve got nine kinds of trouble

I’m just trying to find my way home.

Over twenty-some years of living

and a thousand wasted days

I have loved a lot of women

Many times I’ve gone wrong ways

And I came down to the water

For a dip. To cleanse my soul.

They keep telling me that I’m just a babe

But baby, why do I feel so old?

This is the verge of a breakthrough

it’s a fine line that cannot be bent

and I felt like I river run dry

but I don’t know where all of the rainwater went

And I believed we were all dead or dying

but I see different in the blue light

there is no such thing as a dawn or a dusk

it is daylight until it is night

You’ve got to fight through the dimming

You’ve got to run into the west

You’ve go to rage against the dying of the light

Live for the moment that’s left

‘Cause there is no such thing as a dying man

We’re alive ’till the moment we’re dead

and a drowning man is just a living man

Who hasn’t run out of his last bit of breath.

I went down to the river

flowing out unto the sea

on my way to the ocean

let the spirit swallow me.

I got low down in the water

I let the current guide my bones

I’ve got nine kinds of trouble

I’m just trying to find my way home.