old cold river

they drug me down to the old cold river

they're gonna throw me in

cuz i've been caught sleeping with the daughter

of the only man in town who can swim

i'm facing the old cold river my back against the wind

they gon' throw me down to the bottom of the river

never to rise again

i sink down

down to the old cold bottom

down

to rest with the fish

i sink down

down to the old cold bottom just as the old man wished

the sea sleeps and the moon is hanging

something i'd rather do

but i'm facing the old cold river

bed of eternal blue

with no reason to breathe without the right to love free

sleep in the deep

sink like a drink

until again when we meet

i sink down

down to the old cold bottom

without a hope in the clouds

down down to the old cold bottom

to rest my bones in the ground

they can't save me

nobody can save me

they can't save me now

they can't save me

nobody can save me if i must live without

i'd rather drown

till i rise to the wide open sky

down to the bottom old lonely bottom

till i rise to the wide open sky

leaving this place where love's forbidden

life without her love ain't worth living.