Deep Water

Green-eyed looker, it always pains me to see

Hollowed out picture of skin and bone

The strangest stranger that I ever did meet

Oh and I guess I ain’t that old



She came on strong with her own confidence

Made you sweat in your cotton, though it’ll breathe

The cruelest behaviour ain’t born or mined (?)

Feel her shell should just go and down the wine (?)



It’s deep water, driving rain

And all I can remember is a cold

Another burned out lover who was begging to leave

She said “why wouldn’t you tie your soul to me?”



Took all I had in my waiting cell

And a little of what I just don’t know

But I got my thinking up to where I fell

And I let the memories of my lovers die



It’s a bitter taste and a, a blinding light

Time fade burns, most would know

Took the hand of the, the woman I love

Now I am sure I’m gonna make her my own



It’s the deep water, the driving rain

I’m making a shelter of my own

When Jesus comes he’s gonna eat with me

And he’s gonna find our children old



Got a road all laid out and trenched

And mined enough for a walking pace

It seems so different from where I’ve come

Oh Lord I’d love to see that, that place again



With its deep water, mountain range

Full of those hard living kind

Petrol stations and a copper mine

The kind of place I think I could die