Strawbs - The River / Down By the Sea Lyrics

Lyrics The River / Down By the Sea - Strawbs



I made a sideways motion
Turning a new leaf
The single minded miner's girl
Was there to share my grief
I shivered in the butter wind
Three times the cockerel crowed
I waited for the river
But the river did not flow.
An autumn turned to silver
Winter turned to gold
The weatherman said dress up
Oh but I did not feel the cold
Kids waited with toboggans
As I sheltered from the snow
I waited for the river
But the river did not flow.
I will drink the milk from you breasts
Meld myself to you
Collect the valley lilies
The worshippers once strew
My body aches with hunger
Yet your belly has to grow
I waited for the river
But the river did not flow.
Maybe you think, a lot like me
Of those who live beside the sea
Who feel so free, so I surmise
With their comfortable homes, and wives
Who end up drinking tea together
In the afternoon of their lives.
They build their homes upon the seashore
The quicksand castles of their dreams
Yet take no notice of the North wind
Which tears their building at the seams.
In their dismay and blind confusion
The weeping widows clutch their shawls
While as the sea mist ever deepens
The sailors hear the sirens' calls.
And in the maelstrom sea which follows
The lifeboat sinks without a trace
And yet there still remain survivors
To bear the shame of their disgrace.
Last night I lay in bed
And held myself
Trying to remember
How it once was with you
How your hands were softer.
Yesterday I found myself
Rather like the sailor
In my own home surroundings
I'm not sure I know me.
If you were me what would you do
Don't tell me I don't need you to
It won't help me now.



Writer(s): Cousins


Strawbs - A Taste of Strawbs
Album A Taste of Strawbs
date of release
08-12-2009

1 Heartbreaker
2 The Grey Hawk
3 The Cruel Wars
4 You Don't Think About Me
5 Not All the Flowers Grow
6 You Keep Going Your Way
7 Sail Away to the Sea
8 Nothing Else Will Do
9 Oh How She Changed
10 Or Am I Dreaming?
11 All The Little Ladies
12 Ah Me, Ah My
13 The Man Who Caled Himself Jesus
14 The Battle
15 It's Just Love
16 Another Day
17 Forever
18 Where Am I (I'll Show You Where To Sleep)
19 Canon Dale
20 Rmw
21 Sheep
22 Tomorrow
23 New World
24 Here It Comes
25 See How They Run
26 Going Home
27 The Actor
28 Part Of The Union
29 The Winter & the Summer
30 Whichever Way the Wind Blows
31 Betrayed / Shine On Silver Sun / Words of Wisdom
32 Out In the Cold / Round & Round
33 The Writing On the Wall
34 The Four Queens
35 Ghosts (Theme)
36 Lemon Pie
37 Chérie je t'aime
38 So Shall Our Love Die?
39 Still Small Voice
40 Absent Friend (How I Need You Now)
41 The Merchant Adventurer
42 Blue Angel
43 Goodbye
44 Deadly Nightshade
45 Midnight
46 Sweet Voices
47 Bring Out Your Dead
48 Another day without you
49 Touch the Earth
50 Armada
51 A Glimpse Of Heaven
52 The Hangman & the Paptist
53 I'll Carry On Beside You
54 Heavy Disguise
55 That's When the Crying Starts
56 Evergreen
57 Song of a Sad Little Girl
58 Ringing Down the Years
59 Further Down the Road
60 Heartbreak Hill
61 Extravaganza On a Theme of Strawbs
62 Files of Facts
63 Hero & Heroine
64 The Ten Commandments
65 The King
66 Hummingbird (Instrumental)
67 Alice's Song
68 Maclean Street / Who Knows Where the Time Goes
69 We'll Meet Again Sometime
70 Sunday Morning
71 On A Night Like This
72 Dragonfly
73 Canada
74 Here today, gone tomorrow
75 The Happiest Boy In Town
76 Draft Raga
77 Ways and Means
78 The Rip It Off Blues
79 Stay Awhile with Me
80 Oh so Sleepy
81 Barcarole (For the Death of Venice)
82 Time and Life
83 Andalucian Express
84 Lay Down
85 Over the Hill
86 You Never Needed Water
87 If
88 Cold Steel
89 The River / Down By the Sea




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