Down To The River

from Scintilla by Jack Harlan

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Standing in a hallway
Of an Empire of Emptiness
October wind through the doorway
Like a ghost of the wilderness
My existence is tremblin’ right down to the bone
When you really get down to it
All I got left is silver and gold

Down to the river
In the pale moonlight
If my Lord don’t deliver
The river gonna swallow me tonight

When I was much younger
I never count a wasted day
Just always bought another
When you’re young you buy
The days with pocket change
Had a hand full of women
And a diamond cane at my side
Now these days when I take women home
There just ain’t no honey in their pie
Down to the river
In the pale moonlight
If my lord don’t deliver
The river gonna swallow me tonight

God send me a word
Make it straight and true
I don’t care what it is
As long as it ain’t something I’m used to

Got an imported ceiling
Got seven guest rooms
Ten different tailors
My clothes have been woven on a golden loom
I got everything you probably ever wanted
But that’s all my life can lend
I got a million connections
But I ain’t got no friends

Down to the river
In the pale moonlight
If my Lord don’t deliver
The river gonna swallow me tonight

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from Scintilla, released September 8, 2001

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Jack Harlan Calgary, Alberta

Lyrical firestorms, foot stomping and soft introspection of Alternative Folk, Indie & Experimental Roots.

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