Brian Douglas Phillips - The Silent k**er lyrics

One by one, the stitches came unties One by one, the patterns told me lies I laid to rest that feedsack dress And the name I sewed inside Laid it down in the cedar chest Where I laid that child One by one, the letters burned his name One by one, on the fairytales I'd made He knelt down on my daddy's land Where we counted stars in vain And tied his vow upon my head With a piece of string And oh, that rivers keeps a runnin' on A silent k**er pushin' toward the dawn And every flower I saw growin' along Has up and washed away One by one, my babies found their feet One by one, I sang them all to sleep Their daddy sang with whiskey breath And aces up his sleeves It hurt like hell the day he left But he had to leave And oh, that rivers keeps a runnin' on A silent k**er pushin' toward the dawn And every flower I saw growin' along Has up and washed away One by one, the thimble and the string One by one, the needle ran between I fixed that mess, that old sack dress That smelled liked evergreen I laced it up and lost my breath Oh, it wasn't me And oh, that rivers keeps a runnin' on A silent k**er pushin' toward the dawn And every flower I saw growin' along Has up and washed away