"the river knows" genre: Folk
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	this is a song about a moment in time that stays no matter how much time passes by.
	MP3.com CD: Guesses at Wisdom - buy it! CD: Guesses at Wisdom   Label: TBD Credits: jef scoville dobro, susan levine harmony, walker anderson accordion
	Story Behind the Song some moments end up framed and fixed in time yet time continues to flow. Lyrics I think she thought the distance was too far I think she thought I longed to be a star I think she said to me, boy, this never can be I even think I heard her say goodbye she led me by the hand and through her hometown, past the humming yellow streetlight driveway drone past her parent’s anxious stares and their virgin mother prayers. through the winding winter streets we walked alone did we stumble, did we crawl, did we fly or finally fall to the place beside the river that we found? she told the river’s name to me, I told the river mine softly, then we listened to the magic water’s sound and now the river— knows my name I spoke it like a password to a prayer I know it saw her dark eyes shine, it could taste the tears in mine and it felt the wind so gently move her hair we watched there from the water’s edge, she told me of her dreams, I don’t recall a single word I said but the words that people say like the prayers that prayers pray can fall and tangle like the sheets from off a bed how the stars did shine down to light up the crown the queen of night was wearing for the show she reached out her hand as we both did try to stand and wipe the midnight dirt from off our clothes and now the river— knows my name I spoke it like a password to a prayer I know it saw her dark eyes shine, it could taste the tears in mine and it felt the wind so gently move her hair I still see her winter breath curling through the night, drifting to its rest among the stars ‘sweet longing’ was the scene, the picture fram e around a dream whispered by the passing highway cars I cannot sing today the words I could not say the broken wings that would not fold or fly the river there still flows with all the things it knows those things that will forever pass me by. and now the river— knows my name I spoke it like a password to a prayer I know it saw her dark eyes shine, it could taste the tears in mine and it felt the wind so gently move her hair.

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