The River

High water carried her down stream
 She watched the water's living things
 She thought, it's not a mound with six planks of wood
 The cardinal points to hold you up
 Or a mountain where a shed self could
 Feed the roots and honor the tongues of the animals
 Drift into the moss and bloat where the peat bog pulls
 Feed the roots and honor the tongues of the animals
 Drift into the moss and bloat where the peat bog pulls
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 Rolled like a felled tree with arms as useless as such
 Death's panic came, a calmness stayed, you couldn't do much
 Just watch the water chip away at the bank eroding
 Cut and crumbling through the spate
 It took a father, it covered his daughter
 Took her down, down, down
 With the glass bottles, books, a tire
 Collected hair tufts in the weeds
 Snagged and wrapped in the peats
 Dammed and trapped
 You said, is this the ceremony?
 I don't know, well I don't mind
 The way we all fall in and roll down
 Pushed through the veins and the trafficked byes
 And when your ears sit under
 Head is half submerged down below
 Pooling all accounts of peace
 While passed beneath the canopy glow
 The canopy glow
 The canopy glow
 
 The canopy glow
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 You said, is this the ceremony?
 I don't know, well I don't mind
 The way we all fall in and roll down
 Pushed through the veins and the trafficked byes
 And when your ears sit under
 Head is half submerged down below
 Pooling all accounts of peace
 While passed beneath the canopy glow
 You said, is this the ceremony?
 I don't know, well I don't mind
 The way we all fall in and roll down
 Pushed through the veins and the trafficked byes
 And when your ears sit under
 Head is half submerged down below
 Pooling all accounts of peace
 While passed beneath the canopy glow
 The canopy glow, the canopy glow
 The canopy glow, the canopy glow