old cold river

Lyrics

they drug me down to the old cold river, they're gonna throw me in, cuz i've been caught sleeping with the daughter, of the only man in town who can swim, i'm facing the old cold river my back against the wind, they gon' throw me down to the bottom of the river, never to rise again, i sink down, down to the old cold bottom, down, to rest with the fish, i sink down, down to the old cold bottom just as the old man wished, the sea sleeps and the moon is hanging, something i'd rather do, but i'm facing the old cold river, bed of eternal blue, with no reason to breathe without the right to love free, sleep in the deep, sink like a drink, until again when we meet, i sink down, down to the old cold bottom, without a hope in the clouds, down down to the old cold bottom, to rest my bones in the ground, they can't save me, nobody can save me, they can't save me now, they can't save me, nobody can save me if i must live without, i'd rather drown, till i rise to the wide open sky, down to the bottom old lonely bottom, till i rise to the wide open sky, leaving this place where love's forbidden, life without her love ain't worth living.