I feel your love Keep your love around me An electric fence, a silent defense to you all Keep your love around me so I can never know what's going on What's going on Let the river answer You must let me go before I get old I need to find someone who

We’re singing, oh Baby, tonight, I’ll say it right, let’s make it for life Now there’s a rhinestone river and it takes me to the sea Before I grow dimmer and I die and go to sleep I wanna say these words to you tonight Let’s take tonight and make it for

Stop all this talk, turn off the telephone Open up another bottle, send those people home Let it get real quiet, turn that lamp way down low I'm gonna float down this river of tears I remember how we spoke on the days he was dry Even now that he's gone

And let it wash away, wash away You tore the floorboards up And let the river rush in Not wash away, wash away We were reaching in the dark That summer in New York But it didn't hurt at all That summer in New York (wash away) And was it so far to fall?

My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in? Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete Under skies all smoky blue-green I can't forsake a Dixie dead-shake So we danced the sidewalk clean New Orleans is sinking man, and I don't wanna swim

I'm gonna build a fire in the middle of July Burn your pictures and go for a drive Down to the river Watch the ink from your love letters fade Come back home and turn that old mattress over Pour out the whiskey try wakin' up sober Gonna change it all

Whiskey river, take my mind Don't let her memory torture me Whiskey river, don't run dry You're all I got, take care of me I'm drowning in a whiskey river Bathin' my memory in mind in the wetness of its soul Feeling the amber current flowing from my mind

I've seen you disappear Don't scare me off now, I'm your only friend Let the river in If blood is thicker than water Then let the river in You, beneath the bed, I know all your tricks I've seen you watching I've seen you drifting away Seen you falling

Well, take me back down where cool water flow, yeh Let me remember things I love Stoppin' at the log where catfish bite, Walkin' along the river road at night, Barefoot girls dancin' in the moonlight I can hear the bull frog callin' me Wonder if my

Tear our t-shirts in the cotton patch behind the barn Tear up some turnip greens on some river bottom ground Or find some muscadines up on a hill Let’s get tangled in the tassels of some ten foot corn Get lost out in the rye grass lay a blanket in the