Cross the River on Your Own

I know a way to kill the ripple from your touch

And what if I can only settle for much?

It stays with you

You’re like a sky so drizzly

That I want

‘Till I take it out on you

Show me how to keep you in

You be good to me

And I, I’ll be good to you

Don’t let go of your light

It’s your best friend in the world

I hope you’ll learn what Heaven knows

Who cares if I go?

I know a way to tell the middle from the start

And what if telling makes the brittle fall apart?

In time although my hair turns grey and grizzly

Stay with me

So we cursed a lot

And I’m ashamed of walking out

Oh it’s just too bad, we got stuck in the past

We’re hiding there in silence now

It sounds familiar

You be good to me

And I, I’ll be good to you

I’m off to work

But I don’t see you turn

Cross the river on your own

On the other side

You wanna go far away

On the other side

The riverbed

Follow us there

You be good to me

And I, I’ll be good to you

Don’t let go of your light

It’s your best friend in the world

I hope you’ll learn what Heaven knows

Who cares if I go?

So we cursed a lot

And I’m ashamed of walking out

And my thoughts are wrought with a shortsighted secret

And missing you

Why do you cry, Paddy?

Long as I’ve been alive

Old as I am

I’ve still no plan

I’m off to work

But I don’t see you turn

My life was OK

I was counting my steps