Matamoros Banks-Bruce Springsteen

[00:07.61]For two days the river keeps you down [00:14.49]Then you rise to the light without a sound [00:21.29]Past the playgrounds and empty switching yards [00:27.91]The turtles eat the skin from your eyes, so they lay open to the stars [00:36.01]Your clothes give way to the current and river stone [00:42.30]'Till every trace of who you ever were is gone [00:49.61]And the things of the earth they make their claim [00:56.76]That the things of heaven may do the same [01:05.28]Goodbye, my darling, for your love I give God thanks, [01:11.36]Meet me on the Matamoros [01:16.43]Meet me on the Matamoros [01:18.38]Meet me on the Matamoros banks [01:24.48]Over rivers of stone and ancient ocean beds [01:31.62]I walk on sandals of twine and tire tread [01:38.40]My pockets full of dust, my mouth filled with cool stone [01:45.80]The pale moon opens the earth to its bones [01:53.54]I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your sweet love I give God thanks [02:06.79]The touch of your loving fingertips [02:13.63]Meet me on the Matamoros [02:18.55]Meet me on the Matamoros [02:20.71]Meet me on the Matamoros banks [02:34.64]Your sweet memory comes on the evenin' wind [02:41.61]I sleep and dream of holding you in my arms again [02:49.10]The lights of Brownsville, across the river shine [02:56.40]A shout rings out and into the silty red river I dive [03:05.72]I long, my darling, for your kiss, for your sweet love I give God thanks [03:19.06]A touch of your loving fingertips [03:26.06]Meet me on the Matamoros [03:29.48]Meet me on the Matamoros [03:32.81]Meet me on the Matamoros banks [03:40.76]Meet me on the Matamoros [03:45.71]Meet me on the Matamoros [03:48.59]Meet me on the Matamoros banks