History Book-Dry the River

[ti:History Book] [ar:Dry the River] [al:Shallow Bed] [by:] [offset:0] [00:04.23]Artist：dry the river [00:05.87]Songs Title：history book [00:08.95] [00:18.38]Like faithful oxen through the chalk [00:23.69]With dragging tails of history walk [00:27.57]Soon confuse the compass and the cross [00:35.00] [00:35.74]Carefully and cursively we fill our travelling diaries with loss [00:44.88] [00:53.51]Beneath an angry Bible flood [00:58.95]Did you and I first learn to love [01:03.07]In my father's car we came to know [01:10.10]And shivered in our painted clothes and paired like every animal below [01:19.70] [01:27.28]As heavy as a history book can be [01:31.30]I will carry it with me oh Lord [01:37.23] [01:43.18]And maybe when the bitterness has gone [01:46.83]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more [01:56.51] [01:59.89]Barefoot in a rowing boat [02:03.43]You lose your shoes and freeze your toes [02:07.75]And say I wear my sorrow like a crown [02:13.77] [02:14.89]And throw your arms around my head and see it there in gold and red and brown [02:23.72] [02:29.74]As heavy as a history book can be [02:33.50]I will carry it with me oh Lord [02:40.25] [02:45.15]And maybe when the bitterness has gone [02:48.88]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more [02:55.97] [03:01.24]We'll soon forget our parents' names [03:07.76] [03:08.63]Like dogs will drive the wolves away [03:14.85] [03:16.16]And weep with fingertips opposed [03:21.62]Like a church where nobody congregates [03:25.69] [03:32.35]But sweetness sings in the pasture [03:35.83]We throw ourselves on the mercy of the earth [03:40.09]If sand and salt have the answer [03:43.28]Then the act itself will be louder than the word [03:47.63]And I'll be on your side