Muddy River, lyric by Laurie Anderson

from the songs album Bright Red

Rain keeps pouring down houses are cracking. people drown. cars are rusting here. a church floats by washed in the blood of the lamb. and all the superhighways have disappeared one by one. and a
E towns and cities and signs are underwater now. they're gone. we're going down my the muddy river we're walking down by the muddy river somebody tell me please: what happened here? mud is every
. fish are swimming in the fields. everybody's running arund, they're yelling is this the end of the known world? men and women in their boats try to save what they've lost. they're yelling, it'
Gone now. we're never gonna find it again. but when the muddy river starts to rise it covers us all. and when i look into your eyes two tiny clocks two crystal balls we begin again. we try we b
Again. down by we're going down by down by the muddy river. we begin again down by the muddy river we're walking down by down by the muddy river. we're going down by down by the muddy river.