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arliss nancy - alluvial lyrics

the night she stopped by my momma’s house
me and the fellas
we were out on the run
from a town that i swear
had it out for me since i was young

step to the rhythm on a night like tonight
on the long walk from a corner bar
like a foot on my throat
her words came in from back home
and made the distance so far

there’s a reason for the things that we’re all scared to let go;
a favorite record, fallen lover, or the sound of the road
i know that it’s now or it’s never

“halleluiah,” sang the gospel choir
as the thunder heads came rolling ‘round
we felt the heat of that smoke
and college avenue choked
as the mountain burned down
we found just what we wanted
we found everything
i think we need to survive
so i can’t be blamed on a dark summer night

and yet sometimes i feel the overwhelming need to retire return my body to the ether and this great spectral fire
and lay down as the world turns over

[chorus]
but there’ll come a time when my wars will be won
and my great divide be slowly lost in the flood
and spread out like alluvial fanning
we’ll start a new life
we’ll settle that place
i’ll take jen for a wife, have a boy
so my name can live on
when i die, i can be happy

now i know
i can be a little bit hard to bear
i’ve been a little unwell;
i drank my weight from the swell
as the wave washed me under here

i can feel it in my bones every evening
and i can tell it to the ghosts
that i’ve been bringing back home
because i can’t let it go, and i can’t be alone

there‘s a distance i’ve been closing in since i was a child
a reason for the things still haunting me and driving me wild

[chorus]
but there’ll come a time when my wars will be won
and my great divide be washed away in the flood
and spread out like alluvial fanning
we’ll start a new life
we’ll settle that place
i’ll take jen for a wife, have a boy
so my name can live on
when i die, i’ll die happy

but i’ve been losing sleep
over how a man can ever reach atonement for his deeds
if i can’t ready my aim, steady my breathing
focus my shot on a k!ll that takes meaning
slipping away, or is it retreating
the only line i’m losing’s inside me
because she’s seen that i’m full of holes
and i know that they show if the light’s behind me
casting off the stage, my constellation heart
i sought to be -ssuaged and set my comp-ss to her star
over the sea, divisional lines
that divide up the king from his queen

[chorus]
there’ll come a time when my wars will be won
and my great divide be sweetly coming undone
and spread out like alluvial fanning
we’ll start a new life
we’ll settle that place
i’ll take jen for a wife, have a boy
so my name can live on
when i die, i’ll die happy

- arliss nancy lyrics

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