River of the Lost Souls

Forty days in the canyon

Forty nights waitin’ on daylight

Gone away, all hope abandoned

Forty days by the riverside

Came to you a boy of twenty

Came to find you were the fighting kind

All mine to lose, all turned against me

Life and limb left ‘em on the line

CHORUS

Roll me soft and rock me gently

Like the one you always wanted for yourself

Love and loss you’ve known aplenty

If I dig my way to silver

I’ll be drinking to your health

But you bore me down with good intention

Through the chaos, through the cataract

On solid ground, found me protection

You bore me down spinning on my back

But I took it hard nothing for granted

Searching for a way up from the shore

In falling darkness empty-handed

Found fear of God and nothing more

CHORUS

Came to the end there at the bottom

Carved my name into a wall of stone

Said light ‘em right up if you got ‘em

No cause for shame dying alone

But the Devil’s due was never given

No last rites this time for a lost soul

Down through the night ghosts of the living

Old friends of mine carrying me home