The River letra

High water carried her down stream
She watched the water's living things
She thought, it's not a mound with six planks of wood
The cardinal points to hold you up
Or a mountain where a shed self could

Feed the roots and honor the tongues of the animals
Drift into the moss and bloat where the peat bog pulls

Rolled like a felled tree
With arms as useless as such
Death's panic came, a calmness stayed, you couldn't do much
Just watch the water chip away at the bank eroding
Cut and crumbling through the spate

It took a father, it covered a daughter
Took her down, down, down
With the glass bottles, books, a tire
Collected hair tufts in the weeds
Snagged and wrapped in the peats
Dammed and trapped

You said, is this the ceremony?
I don't know, well I don't mind
The way we all fall in and roll down
Pushed through the veins and trafficked byes
And when your ears sit under
Head is half submerged down below
Pooling all accounts of peace while passed beneath the canopy glow

Anathallo - Letras

• ...In The Atlas Position
• A Holiday At The Sea
• A Song For Christine
• Aaron Held His Peace
• All The First Pages
• At Lowest Point
• Before The Throne of God Above
• Bells
• But Without Love
• By Numbers
• Cafetorium
• Celebrate
• Come Ye Sinners
• Cuckoo Spitting Blood
• Declared, Bannered
• Dokkoise House (With Face Covered)
• Don't Kid Yourself, You Need A Physician
• Fugue: 24
• Genessaret (Going Out Over 30,000 Fathoms Of Water)
• Hanasakajijii (Four: A Great Wind, More Ash)
• Hanasakajijii (One: The Angry Neighbor)
• Hanasakajijii (Three: The Man Who Made Dead Trees Bloom)
• Hanasakajijii (Two: Floating World)
• Hoodwink
• I Need Thee Every Hour
• I Thought In My Heart...
• Inu (Howling)
• It Is Well Within My Soul
• Italo
• John J. Audubon
• Just Because You Can't See The Sun Doesn't Mean It's Not Shining
• Kasa No Hone (The Umbrella's Bones)
• Mardi Gras
• Noni's Field
• Northern Lights
• Sleeping Torpor
• Snowman
• Sparrows
• The Bruised Reed
• The River
• To Gary And Marcus: The Sovereignty Of God Is Omnipresent
• Tower of Babel
• What Wonderous Love Is This?
• Wondrous Love