The River Knows Songtext
von The SteelDrivers

She covered up his anger
With a little rouge and Maybelline
It turned into a nightmare
From a perfect dream
He blamed her and shamed her
When he couldn′t blame someone else
He never learned how to love
Only how to hate himself
He would play the victim
When he'd commit the crime
He′d beg her for forgiveness
Time after time
Between the cocaine and the whiskey
The Jekyll and the Hyde
The mud and the blood
All spilled out by the riverside
The water's rising with secrets and sin
Down down down it flows around the bend
Water never tells how the story goes
But oh, the river knows


Somebody called the sheriff
About a body on the bank
Upon closer inspection
He asked who he should thank
There was a missing finger
Where he wore his wedding band
Only the shadow on that bridge
Knows what happened to that man
The water's rising with secrets and sin
Down down down it flows around the bend
Water never tells how the story goes
But oh, the river knows
There are whispers, there are rumors
About that fateful night
Some say he drowned a drunkard
Some say he lost a fight
There′s a legend of a ghost
Copper headed just like me
That haunts that muddy bank
When the moon is hard to see
The water′s rising with secrets and sin
Down down down it flows around the bend
Water never tells how the story goes
But oh
The water's rising with secrets and sin
Down down down it flows around the bend
Water never tells how the story goes
But oh, the river knows