History Book-Dry the River

[ti:History Book] [ar:Dry the River] [al:Shallow Bed] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.33]Artist：dry the river [00:02.97]Songs Title：history book [00:06.10] [00:17.52]Like faithful oxen through the chalk [00:22.06]With dragging tails of history walk [00:26.14]Soon confuse the compass and the cross [00:33.90]Carefully and cursively we fill our travelling diaries with loss [00:43.71] [00:50.74]Beneath an angry Bible flood [00:55.44]Did you and I first learn to love [00:59.70]In my father's car we came to know [01:05.47] [01:06.74]And shivered in our painted clothes and paired like every animal below [01:15.80] [01:23.79]As heavy as a history book can be [01:27.67]I will carry it with me oh Lord [01:34.33] [01:39.14]And maybe when the bitterness has gone [01:42.77]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more [01:54.44] [01:55.27]Barefoot in a rowing boat [01:58.96]You lose your shoes and freeze your toes [02:03.54]And say I wear my sorrow like a crown [02:10.22]And throw your arms around my head and see it there in gold and red and brown [02:19.68] [02:24.95]As heavy as a history book can be [02:28.71]I will carry it with me oh Lord [02:35.30] [02:40.07]And maybe when the bitterness has gone [02:43.57]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more [02:52.98] [02:55.49]We'll soon forget our parents' names [03:01.45] [03:02.88]Like dogs will drive the wolves away [03:08.46] [03:10.29]And weep with fingertips opposed [03:15.51]Like a church where nobody congregates [03:19.90] [03:25.74]But sweetness sings in the pasture [03:29.19]We throw ourselves on the mercy of the earth [03:33.00]If sand and salt have the answer [03:36.38]Then the act itself will be louder than the word [03:40.41]And I'll be on your side