Dry The River - History Book (Acoustic) lyrics

Share Like faithful oxen through the chalk With dragging tails of history walk Soon confuse the compa** and the cross Carefully and cursively we fill our traveling diaries with loss Beneath an angry Bible flood Did you and I first learn to love In my father's car we came to know And shivered in our painted clothes and paired like every animal below As heavy as a history book can be I will carry it with me, oh Lord And maybe when the bitterness has gone There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more Barefoot in a rowing boat You lose your shoes and freeze your toes And say I wear my sorrow like a crown And throw your arms around my head, and see it there in gold and red and brown As heavy as a history book can be I will carry it with me, oh Lord And maybe when the bitterness has gone There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more We'll soon forget our parents' names Like dogs will drive the wolves away And weep with fingertips opposed Like a church where nobody congregates But sweetness sings in the pasture We throw ourselves on the mercy of the earth If sand and salt have the answer Then the act itself will be louder than the word And I'll be on your side