Down Down the Deep River

Spit into the center of your hometown There's leaves in the street And there are friends around you now All the days of your life in a line Or the way they seemed by '89 But it's not alright It's not even close to alright Down a hall of your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Down a hall of your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) We lie awake at night in a tent And I say, "Tell me about your uncle and his friend 'Cause they seem like very bad men Well, we want to keep away from them!" Bend in the road back there We saw the place they go "Tell me about the greatest show Or the greatest movie you know Or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio You gonna play it again and again It cuts off at the ending, though Tell me I'm always going to be your best friend Now, you said it one time, why don't you say it again? All the way down the line to where the telephone ends Come on and shout it on down the wire And it's not alright, not even close to alright" Down a hall of your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Down a hall of your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) And as the rescue party, the volunteer team Ah, they're just kids of eighteen And it's the worst thing they've seen As they're all standing around that tree And I'm so sorry, and I can't stop crying Oh, I know Shivering from the late fall cold I felt like a solid ghost I ran, and then I couldn't slow My father found me though My father took me home He said, "Oh, son, I saw you get knocked down and I ran out I bet your head was spinning With that bright pain you're stunned When you've only just begun to be only just beginning Tossed in the viper pit All those feelings and fears And all the difficult shit in all those tender years There was something in the air Something gathered in the air Something singing in the wind Oh, I'll be your fighter and you'll be my mirror And you'll be all right because I'll be right here Oh, kid, now I'm not going anywhere I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere Though it's not alright It's so far from all right We'll make it into a choice somehow I don't know, but you'll have a choice somehow. "Down a hall in your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) We can never go back; we can only remember (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) "Maybe they told you about the summer sky And maybe they said there's a great gold spirit in the summer sky All your friends All your best, best friends Are going to gather around your bed at night Well that don't make it alright Because it is still so far from alright Oh, kid, I know" Down a hall in your house, down a road in December Up the stairs, four flights up, can you feel my heart shiver? Walking in the dawn, with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer I said, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down the deep river Oh, down the deep river Down, down, down, down, down the deep river, down, down the deep river Why don't you, why don't you, oh, say you still see it Say, say you remember Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down Hey, hey, hey Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, down, down the deep river I know it's scary, baby