baby daughter Now the river's wide and deep and brown And she's crossing muddy waters Now the river's wide and deep and brown And she's crossing muddy waters
took a flatboat across the shallow CHORUS: Left me in my tears to drown she left a baby daughter Now the water's wide and deep and brown she's crossing muddy waters
Käännös: John Hiatt. Crossing Muddy Waters.
I've been sleeping for some hours Just woke up and you were there Like the morning, like the flowers Sunlight whispering in my ears Red tail hawk shooting
To cross that great river Of every tear was ever cried 'till we find ourselves staring in God's golden eyes In the desert love waited Licking salt water
Gone like my last paycheck gone, gone away Gone like the car I wrecked gone, gone away Gone like a fifth of gin gone, gone away Gone like the shape I
CHORUS: You gotta lift up every stone now sister Gotta lift up every stone now sister Gotta lift up every stone now sister Gotta clear this field and
What I feel is like an old freight train Five miles long in the pouring rain Rolling out of Detroit loaded up with shiny cars And I'm sitting in a Cadillac
Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son Mr. Stanley loved me just like a son Now he's gone I ain't got no one Daddy died when I wasn't half a man Oh
I woke her up twice in the middle of the night To ask what her name is and where she might live To ask how many fingers she saw in this light To ask
Take everything that we have Take it and burn it to the ground Some things were never meant to last CHORUS: Take it down, down, down Take it down Take
Take back all those kisses that you stole from me Take back mister and misses to your family Can't take broken dishes when we fight all day, hey Take
CHORUS: What do we do now What do we do now What do we do now What do we do now When it's lying there with a busted heart Like a piece of glass where
