Down On the River By the Sugar Plant - Mike Doughty

All of the girls out with their hips a sway

But I’m the loneliest man

They’re selling incense and sunglasses on Orchard Street

Boatloads of bootleg Sean John

I’ll dream you up in this vast, dark bed

Believe I loved you for each hair upon the back of your neck

And I want to kiss you but I can’t

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Earrings weighing down the lobe and

Nose a lovely slope and the mouth turned down

Shoulders pale and beautiful and

Angle of the throat and your sweet sad stare

All of the waves that crash upon the shore

Fruitlessly shushing the world

I pledge allegiance to my displacement

My flag of doubt is unfurled

I’ll dream you up on a vast, dark coast

Believe I see you walking toward me

Arms outstretched like a Ghost

And I want to kiss you but I can’t

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Down on the river by the sugar plant