Feed West - River lyrics

A monster from the river by the back of our home Clenched around my ankle, teeth digging to the bone Rising up so quick and clever Only for my hopes to wither Woke up in a ring of trees With a bandolier of lead Finished off the whiskey To satisfy my head What gave shivers to my heart was not the tremor of the earth But the way the sky was dyed And how you loved me And how you loved me as I loved you before my body fled And I shimmered in and out of my existence I wait for the night because the stars can not be counted Drop down the heavy shutters when the sun has me surrounded Every night is deadly with beasts braying in the dark Sharks swim the air around but every bullet finds its mark My severed mind left behind this simmering remorse Tired zombies flowing out of illuminated halls It turns out everybody’s swimming in the river Turns out I am swimming in the river Turns out I will now become the water If I was really anything before her What gave shivers to my heart was not the tremor of the earth But the way the sky was dyed And how you loved me And how you loved me as I loved you before my body fled And I shimmered in and out of my existence Show