Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Summer Songs #20... Down By The Water


See this ancient river bed
See where all my follies led
Down by the water & down by the old main drag

I was just some tow-head teen
Feeling 'round for fingers to get in between
Down by the water & down by the old main drag

The season rubs me wrong
The summer swells anon
So knock me down, tear me up
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Down by the water & down by the old main drag

Sweet descend this rabble 'round
The pretty little patter of a seaboard town
Rolling in the water & rolling in the old main drag

All dolled up in gabardine
The lash-flashing Leda of pier 19
Queen of the water & queen of the old main drag

The season rubs me wrong
The summer swells anon
So knock me down, tear me up
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Down by the water & down by the old main drag

The season rubs me wrong
The summer swells anon
So knock me down, tear me up
But I would bear it all broken just to fill my cup
Down by the water & down by the old main drag
Down by the water & down by the old main drag

Colin Meloy
2011









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