Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Riverboat , by - Howlin' Rain. Release date: 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 |