Dave Carter - The River, Where She Sleeps lyrics

She's a walkin' talkin' breathin' New Age wonder, old time heathens Don't know what to make of Mary Jane 'Cause she ain't tryin to be no swami, she ain't mad at dad and mommy She don't curse the storm clouds when it rains When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she make everything look fine She got moon in her eyes, crescent windows on the skies And the rain comes down in sheets on the people in the streets And it carries all the secrets that they keep to the river where she sleeps She comes to me when I'm dejected, leaves her soul out unprotected Tells me that the truth can make me free And she don't need what she ain't got, she reads me books by Alan Watts Speakin' words o' wisdom: let it be When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she take thunder for a sign She got stars in her head, supernovas in her bed And it rains most every day, but I like it fine that way 'Cause the waters run so marvelous and deep in the river where she sleeps Now Mary ain't inclined to drinkin', still she stumbles without thinkin' Anywhere she gets the urge to stray And everybody knows about her, they don't want to change or doubt her They just grin when she comes out to play When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she be movin' down the line She got bells on her toes, generations in her clothes And she sings without a sound as the evenin' rolls around And she dances as the twilight shadows creep down the river where she sleeps Professor come to burst my bubble, says that girl is bound for trouble Serves me solace in a paper cup But it looks a bit like agent orange and when he leaves he slams the door and Just about that time she phones me up When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she just ain't the worryin' kind She got dogs, she got cats, she keeps rabbits in her hats And the people that she sees, they're all Buddha's or police And the banks rise high and perilous and steep by the river where she sleeps Now one dismayed December dawn I wake to find my Mary's gone And no one knows when she'll come back again And all the silent temple bells from Styx to Glenn to Hazel Dell Are mournin' all the nights that might have been When the sun refuse to shine she don't mind, she just leave this world behind She got wheels in her smile, she can coast along for miles Me I'm walkin' all alone, feelin' soulful to the bone Till I stop and I hang my head and weep by the river where she sleeps