Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Riverbank , by - John Cale. Song from the album Live At Rockpalast, in the genre Иностранный рокRelease date: 29.04.2010
Record label: M.i.G. -
Song language: English
Riverbank |
| All along the riverbank |
| Nobody seems to know |
| They heard nothing, saw even less |
| Of the hunger in their souls |
| Safety first or safety last |
| I wish I could have helped |
| Those poor unfortunate widows standing |
| Waiting for their sailor boys |
| Old Madame Nhu, yes madame knew |
| Yes madame knew |
| Down they came to look around |
| Round that riverbank |
| For names or numbers or anything they could find |
| Written there on the wall |
| 'Cause somebody seemed to know |
| But no one was prepared to tell |
| Anything they’d learnt to love about long ago |
| Anything at all they’d learnt to love long ago |
| With the cold people getting colder |
| Like babysitters in their graves |
| Satisfied as heretic vicars passing on |
| Send them running on ahead |
| Picking up the windy trash instead |
| Like foulmouthed people, open-heart surgery creatures |
| Crawling back inside of you |
| All along the riverbank |
| Nobody will ever know |
| What fools and their monies, what sailors and their honeys |
| Got stung one evening there |
| 'Cause the stones around their necks |
| Are the stones on the riverbank |
| 'Cause the stones around their necks |
| Are the stones on the riverbank |