Pierce Pettis - Little River Canyon lyrics

Little River Canyon, swimming with the snakes Pretty green water so cold it makes you ache Even on the hottest Alabama days When girls would lie on terry cloth and bake So deep into that landscape, we did not realize That we had been talking in accents all our lives Just a vague sense of the world pa**ing us by Like out of state tags rolling down I-59 This song is just an echo This song is just a ripple trom a stone (that was) Tossed into the water long ago At the height of adolescence, totally insane With heads more full of hormones than brains Straightening out those curves, flying down those hills Driving so fast its a wonder we weren't all k**ed Cars parked on the canyon rim any weekend night You could hold your baby like a floatation device Bobbing to the surface, coming up for air In a tangle of tongues and teeth and hair This song is just an echo This song is just a ripple from a stone (that was) Tossed into the water long ago Some left for college, same could only dream Hanging around town, still wearing their high school rings I avoid their faces when I come to town Man, I still don't know which one of us has let the other down Little River Canyon in a crazy quilt of trees I'm looking at that smokey water choked with fallen leaves Fallen like a million childish dreams And just washed away like nothing in that frigid stream This song is just an echo This song is just a ripple from a stone (that was) Tossed into the water long ago