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River Would Roll Us

from Jamboney by Mead Lake's Most Wanted

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We were sailing a riverboat down to Peoria
We were writing a history of rain
Our captain was a silhouette of the glory of
Her eyes and the mystery of pain

My brother said Sisyphus was an astounding man
With stonefuls of happiness he borrowed
I said the Mississip’ had a confounding plan
To steal kisses from the dawn of tomorrow

And the water—it rolled
And it rolled every night
It rolled like the wheel of the day
The water—it rolled
And it rolled till the time
The river would roll us away

We made Dubuque Iowa in a torrential snow
We grazed by the gale winds unplowed
We had great unused piles of some providential rope
We tied to the tailfins of clouds

We abandoned our riverboat on a February night
I traded my cigarettes for cold
But whoever takes a silver bird to the estuary might
See the sunset spin pirouettes of gold

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from Jamboney, released July 4, 2014

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