Two Rivers

from Prayer Street Blues by Jeremy Joyce

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lyrics

There was one was a river wide and fast
Carving through the mountain pass
Her water deep her current strong
Still she sang a mournful song

Starts above what do you see?
Will another river run to me?
I’ve only got one way to go
Where my raging water flows

There once was a river never still
Who ran the grain and factory mills
The big boats they once rode along
Still he sang a mournful song

All you fish who swim in me
What other waters have you seen?
What other rivers have you swam?
I’ll never cross these muddy banks

[CHORUS]
Life just rolls on
Sometimes love’s wrong
All water meets somewhere
I’ll meet you in the air
If it take me one hundred lives
I will find my way to you
We will dance at the end of time
We are the seekers of the truth

When a river sleeps, what does she dream?
Does she turn to flesh for he?
Her bare feet touch the leafy ground
Where she lay her body down

She says I am not this honey flesh
And I am not this trembling breast
I am the river running wild
Never mother, never child

Can a river feel alone?
And want for what he’s never known?
A body born of bone and skin
And a heart to beat within

I am not these lips upon
Your dewy flesh in the budding dawn
I am the river never tame
No man will know my name

credits

from Prayer Street Blues, released December 31, 2015

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Jeremy Joyce New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Jeremy Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of Jeremy’s macro-level interest in music history and his micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.