Even A River - Carla Werner

Even a river runs somewhere

Home to the sea

I am not inside this face

So please stop staring at me

I will need saving from myself

Could you be there to save me?

When I need weight would you pick me up?

Put me back down on both feet

I’m not a river, I tell myself I’m not

For a river knows just how to be

I have been running in spite of myself

Like a river that needs to be free

Want to be taken some place else

Made to face up to the wall

And if I feel like I don’t want to tell

Disregard it as nothing at all

Cos I’m careful needing

(As I’m) prone to bleeding

Over-thinking the way back

Got no sense of timing

Got no silver lining

But maybe I’m finally getting it

Haven’t you already tried,

To raise some other side to me?

You know I don’t mean to be rude

But you’re standing inside my light blocking the view

It’s not really you

Want to be taken some place else

Made to face up to the wall

And if I feel like I don’t want to tell

Disregard it as nothing at all

Cos I’m careful needing

(As I’m) prone to bleeding

Over-thinking the way back

Got no sense of timing

Got no silver lining

But maybe I’m finally getting it

Even a river, runs somewhere

Home to the sea

I am not inside this face

So please, stop, staring at me