From The Rivers To The Ocean - Bill Callahan

When, when you were blind

You touched things for their shape

Have faith in wordless knowledge

Have faith in wordless knowledge

Well, I can tell you about the river

Or we could just get in

The body the rain made of our days before we knew

We are swimming in the rivers

Of the rains of our days before we knew

And it’s hard to explain

What I was doing or thinking before you

I guess I was a decent man holding on

Following the river from above like a bird

With faith in wordless knowledge

And the fallen stars they flew to

And I knew they were sewing something

Something well-made made for me and you

We are swimming in the rivers

Of the rains of our days before we knew

And it’s hard to explain

What I was doing or thinking before you

The city was a fist, I lived on its wrist

And I took myself a good long look around

And the river grew higher and wider

Deeper and darker as I was closing in

And it led me to you which led me to say, «Let's get *in*»

We got in the river and it broked us

Made us think of sex between us

At a time in our lives old before we knew

We were swimming in the rivers

Of the rains of our days before we knew

And it’s hard to explain

What I was doing or thinking before you

And that beautiful thing you said lying in bed

About all the things I could think of at the end of the day

But of all the places my mind could go

It always comes loping back to you

We are swimming in the rivers

Of the rains of our days before we knew

So meet me in the ocean and we’ll ride the waves

From the rivers to the ocean

Each wave a lunging panther

Sharp-eyed and true

We are swimming in the rivers

Of the rains of our days before we knew

And it’s hard to explain

What I was doing or thinking before you

Have faith in wordless knowledge

Have faith in wordless knowledge