The River Is Long Lyrics - Bobby Long

I walked home empty with a sultry dream 

I tossed a coin onto the icy pond 

I tripped and fell upon the icy curve 

The road is short but the river's long 

I drew my eye onto a woman's smile 

Told her man that I was running her down 

We told his friend that I was speaking out, 

So they put me into the ground 

On and on they will go 

Destroying me cruelly 

Taking off all my my clothes 

Way back in the day 

Turn me on upside down 

Screaming in laughter 

I was screaming in pain 

I didn't want to be there 

They found me covered in it head to toe, 

wild and rived like some bound up ghost 

And any day I will lose the fight, 

But it would hurt my family the most 

She was heavy and her voice were grim 

A shaven head-case with a smile turned foul 

Who didn't know that they were bad and wrong 

The road is short but the river's long 

On and on they will go 

Destroying me cruelly 

Taken off all my my clothes, 

way back in the day 

Turn me on upside down, 

Screaming in anger 

I was screaming in pain 

I didn't want to be there 

There turns themselves like some western film 

there's another highway that they cant walk down, 

a sailing over on a misty gorge 

The road is short but the rivers long