MOONCHILD RIVER SONG

take the quiet like a river : like the silver streams that sing for you
love will make it better and I'm sorry that you saw me blue
I'll tell you of the sunrise on a Texas plain so long ago
I looked into your sad eyes and I couldn't say I loved you so

but I love you like the mountains : I love you like the sea
I love you like this highway that always comes for me
I love you like the forest : the quiet of the trees
I love you darling like a river now that runs deep in me

oh lonesome in a valley long ago you said you had a home
your lover he went his way : now love has finally come and gone
but love must find the answer in the Good Book : that's what I read
soon the moon will rise in cancer so stay and gently make my bed

for I love you like the mountains : I love you like the sea
I love you like this highway that always comes for me
I love you like the ocean : the quiet of the breeze
I love you darling like a river now that runs deep in me

after we have waited and that old highway won't steal my song
together we'll lie naked : together we will catch the dawn
you will see my devils and I will see your darkness too
and when the light has settled I will sing this song to you

cause I love you like the mountains : I love you like the sea
I love you like this highway that always comes for me
I love you like the forest : the quiet of the trees
I love you darling like a river now that runs deep in me

                                                       eric andersen