Still Waters from Drowning Songs by Skip K.D.

I walk down by my still waters
Await the flood to rise
Swallow the streets, come up through the gutters
Cast this world aside

You the terror in my heart,
With surface mirror still
And riptides calm, I carry on
And trudge down through the silt

I walk down by my rivers edge
Alone, wait for the tide
Over the banks, through the reeds and sedge
To cast this world aside

The quiet of the drowning deep
And rolling rage that lies beneath
With lonely heart and spiteful hand
At the water’s edge I stand

I walk down by my still waters
Await the flood to rise
Swallow the streets, come up through the gutters
Cast this world aside

My river, carry me alone
As tides rise in my blood
The current flows, through flesh and bone
The fury and the flood

• Folk
• Mendocino