River Whyless - Leaf lyrics

I'm not searching for perfect I'm perfecting my search To pay the debt they say is high above town It's buried deep and its shallow I'll pan the river tomorrow With the hope that I make my way home To a place where our love could have grown If the rain fell in sheets And washed everything clean Then I would be miserable You'd kneel in the attic Of you fathers apartment You'd pray, “Lord, what can I do?” But I'm not asking him, I'm asking you At the top of morning And the bottom of night You were sleeping closer to him I wept in the stairwell To our love I said farewell I had to just let you go To the God that I'd never know