The River
Missy Higgins"The River" is a song by Missy Higgins, released in 2004 in the Pop genre. The song is 3:47 long and contains 29 lines and 215 words.
Lyrics
0:35She ran until her face was numb with cold
0:38And wore a cotton gown that blazed the night untold
0:44She ran until her feet refused to hold
0:47So heavy a heart for someone merely ten years old
0:52And when she reached the river her knees began to shiver
0:56Her head with pounding voices from home
1:01Behind her was a vision a painful apparition
1:05Of a darker world that no one should know
1:13Somebody's bed will never be warm again
1:22The river will keep this friend
1:31The somebody's bed will never be warm again
1:39No never again
1:49She dived beneath the water's icy skin
1:53Hoping the cold would kill the smell of angry gin
1:58And her eyes grew wider than they'd ever been
2:01Just wishing the numbness to cut deeper with it's pins
2:07And as her body lay there she decided to stay there
2:11Till darkness came to pull her away
2:15And beautifully she sank as up river was the bank
2:19Where some bodiless troubles would stay
2:27Somebody's bed will never be warm again
2:36The river will keep this friend
2:45Somebody's bed will never be warm again
2:54No never again
3:16Somebody's bed will never be warm again
3:24The river will keep this friend
3:33Somebody's bed will never be warm again
3:42No never again
3:47No never again
She ran until her face was numb with cold And wore a cotton gown that blazed the night untold She ran until her feet refused to hold So heavy a heart for someone merely ten years old And when she reached the river her knees began to shiver Her head with pounding voices from home Behind her was a vision a painful apparition Of a darker world that no one should know Somebody's bed will never be warm again The river will keep this friend The somebody's bed will never be warm again No never again She dived beneath the water's icy skin Hoping the cold would kill the smell of angry gin And her eyes grew wider than they'd ever been Just wishing the numbness to cut deeper with it's pins And as her body lay there she decided to stay there Till darkness came to pull her away And beautifully she sank as up river was the bank Where some bodiless troubles would stay Somebody's bed will never be warm again The river will keep this friend Somebody's bed will never be warm again No never again Somebody's bed will never be warm again The river will keep this friend Somebody's bed will never be warm again No never again No never again
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