Home Down That River

In the moonlight, there's a river That guides with me Swift as a rising wave Where I fall newly delivered Like a man who's been saved In the moonlight, there's a river Where the songs Of forever Come to pass, oh! Oh! Like some hot healing—fever lasting forever. Oh, here I am at last Oh, here I am healed at last Oh, here I am saved From the dark lord of the night When a man loses his sight He sinks into the dregs of his heart Into dungeons of the dark knight. Oh— I am healed at last? I am no longer one of those forgotten souls On a journey across the ocean waves, home. Oh, am I caught in the maelstrom of a lover's eye? Drowning where the shadows hold The weight of an anchor In whose winding sheets of death Do the demon monsters moan, what to do? Or how or who to wail when they cry And pray for their souls to die. Oh in the moonlight there's a river And it's never been so lucid or so clear Oh honey when I dream I dream I'm nearing near I dream of coming home. Home down that river Like a man who's been saved Home down that river That guides with me With mumbling words of a sage! Swift as a rising wave Home down that river To the comfort of a new undying age Home down that river Like a man who's been saved.