Anathallo - River Lyrics
High water carried her down streamShe watched the water's living thingsShe thought, it's not a mound with six planks of woodThe cardinal points to hold you upOr a mountain where a shed self couldFeed the roots and honor the tongues of the animalsDrift into the moss and bloat where the peat bog pullsRolled like a felled treeWith arms as useless as suchDeath's panic came, a calmness stayed, you couldn't do muchJust watch the water chip away at the bank erodingCut and crumbling through the spateIt took a father, it covered a daughterTook her down, down, downWith the glass bottles, books, a tireCollected hair tufts in the weedsSnagged and wrapped in the peatsDammed and trappedYou said, is this the ceremony?I don't know, well I don't mindThe way we all fall in and roll downPushed through the veins and trafficked byesAnd when your ears sit underHead is half submerged down belowPooling all accounts of peace while passed beneath the canopy glow
