The River Knows

She covered up his anger with a little rouge and Maybelline

It turned into a nightmare from a perfect dream

He blamed her and shamed her when he couldn't blame someone else

He never learned how to love

Only how to hate himself

He would play the victim when he'd commit the crime

He'd beg her for forgiveness time after time

Between the cocaine and the whiskey

The Jekyll and the Hyde

The mud and the blood all spilled out by the riverside

The water's rising with secrets and sin

Down, down, down it flows around the bend

The water never tells how the story goes

But, oh

The river knows

Somebody called the sheriff about a body on the bank

Upon closer inspection, he asked who he should thank

There was a missing finger where he wore his wedding band

Only the shadow on that bridge knows what happened to that man

The water's rising with secrets and sin

Down, down, down it flows around the bend

The water never tells how the story goes

But, oh

The river knows

There are whispers, there are rumors

About that fateful night

Some say he drowned a drunkard

Some say he lost a fight

There's a legend of a ghost, copper-headed just like me

That haunts that muddy bank when the moon is hard to see

The water's rising with secrets and sin

Down, down, down it flows around the bend

The water never tells how the story goes

But, oh

The water's rising with secrets and sin

Down, down, down it flows around the bend

The water never tells how the story goes

But, oh

The river knows