Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Riverboat, artist - Howlin' Rain.
Date of issue: 31.12.2007
Song language: English
Riverboat |
These are not thieves come to take your ruby ring |
They are not ghosts with tales too long |
It’s the sound of dancing of many legged things |
That gather your tears from off the ground |
Our home is a feast love moving from the land |
We’re swaying swamp reeds in the sand |
It’s a cold feeling that hangs about our bones |
When we ride the death’s head waters like leaves |
Take my arrow, the last one I got |
Wait for the wind to take your shot |
Maybe tomorrow you’ll leave another tombstone |
Made of sand and moss |
Here’s my teeth, mama, do you want them back |
To tear the woven web and wires that bind you? |
I killed a man and I’d kill a country full |
To keep the rusted boat beneath your feet |
Our days are numbered too but not outnumbered yet |
While I see you laughing at the sun |
The stars lay on your naked skin, the moon was on your breast |
When a hail of arrows fell upon us |
Take my shell of buckshot the last one I got |
Wait for the wind and take your shot |
Maybe tomorrow we’ll leave two sunken tombstones |
With the silt and moss |
Can you take aim at my enemies? |
I can’t see them anymore |
I will fire blindly into the trees and hope I hit someone’s god |
Or three of some kind of ghost |
These are our times, mama, made of blood and bone |
Furious misfortune is upon us |
We had a run of luck and ran it to the ground |
It calls our lives from the darkness |
I see you with burning eyes, burning with my tears |
I hate, I hate to see your fear |
I’ll leave a hundred bodies rotting in the sun |
And when my final bullet flies I’ll be gone |
I’ll be with my love upon the Styx river |