Song Lyrics Badlees - Song For A River    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> B>> Badlees Singer Lyrics [Badlees other resources]>> Song For A River Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Badlees Music Title/Track: Song For A River Theme ID: 3349 Album: N/A he was the king of the back seat of drunk reverie saw him escorted out of a mets game on network t.v. kept his head in the clouds with any cheap high he could cull in his cancered impala and his hog shirts and his head tapes played dull he lived in a company house in the pardeesville woods with a stir crazy dog and a graveyard of old "jimmy" hoods sundays we'd run for his stash at the new york state line that summer when moments of circumstance altered like wine CHORUS this is for the man this is for the days that we killed was it my wind of change or just a breeze at the top of the hill he didn't talk the gold ring he just schemed for a skeleton key but when you think you met thunder you only see what your head wants to see he threw back-mountain parties five deep at the "well" with his girlfriend, louise, who'd get lit and tell us all "go to hell" then he'd get liquored up and throw me his keys and yell "drive" with him and louise in the back doin' "american pie" he'd talk of out west over beer and the garbage that we ate 'bout the punk band he'd managed in phoenix in '78 i was this kid of sixteen the enamored impressionable kind in the poetic pull of the passion of life with the lines CHORUS he just disappeared that mid-august not even a shout then i read in the news that september that his time had run out how he tried to outrun a state trooper down 93 south a charge of possession is why he fled said word of mouth the paper said nothin' was left but the seats and the frame and i read in the write-up for the first time his real name; birthplace unknown, not from nowhere no close family just a wild running river that cut it too fast to the sea i still raise a glass once a year on the night that he died though hindsight says he only let me believe that we'd ride lord, he still taps a vein in my mind like a summer rain cools long after that river ran dry and reality ruled CHORUS 2X Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Aint No Man, Amazing Grace To You, Angeline is Coming Home, Angels Of Mercy, Appalachian Scream, Back Where We Came from (The Na Na Song), Bendin the Rules, Beyond These Walls, Diamonds in the Coal, Dirty Neon Times, Dont Let Me Hide, Easier Done Than Said, Fear Of Falling, Gone, Gwendolyn, Heaven on Earth, I Liked You Better When You Hated Yourself, Im Not Here Anymore, In a Minor Way, It Dont Matter Anymore To Me, It Aint For You, Just One Moment, Last Great Act of Defiance, Laugh To Keep From Cryin, Laundromat Radio, Leaning On The Days Parade, Like a Rembrandt, Little Eddie, Little hell, Long Good Night, Love all, Luthers windows, Mama They Must Be Crazy, Me, Myself And I, Middle of the busiest road, Mystery Girl, Next Big Thing, Nothing Much Of Anything, Ore Hill, Poison Ivy, Queen Of Perfection, Road to Paradise, Running up that hill, Shes The Woman, Silly little man, Sister Shirley, Song For A River, Spending My Inheritance, The Best Damn Things In Life Are Free, The Real Thing, Other Badlees song Lyrics 34 Winters Lyrics 90 Of The Time Lyrics A Better Way To Save The World Lyrics A Little Faith Lyrics A Matter Of Time Lyrics Amazing Grace To You Lyrics Angeline Is Coming Home Lyrics Angels Of Mercy Lyrics Appalachian Scream Lyrics Back Where We Came From Lyrics Bendin The Rules Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Badlees, The Lyrics Badless, The Lyrics Badloves Lyrics Badly Drawn Boy Lyrics Badly Preserved Lyrics Badric Nina Lyrics Badu Erykah Lyrics Erykah Badu Lyrics Baek Ji Young Lyrics Baez Joan Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy