The Cool, Cool River-Paul Simon

[ti:The Cool, Cool River] [ar:Paul Simon] [al:The Paul Simon Anthology CD2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:19.45]Moves like a fist through the traffic [00:21.45]Anger and no one can heal it [00:23.63]Shoves a little bump into the momentum [00:25.25]It's just a little lump [00:28.00]But you feel it [00:29.12]In the creases and the shadows [00:30.87] [00:33.87]With a rattling deep emotion [00:35.24] [00:38.43]The cool cool river [00:40.39] [00:43.02]Sweeps the wild white ocean [00:44.95] [00:47.26]Yes boss the government handshake [00:48.70]Yes boss the crusher of language [00:51.26] [00:52.00]Yes boss mr stillwater [00:53.44] [00:54.32]The face at the edge of the banquet [00:56.75]The cool the cool river [00:59.76] [01:02.08]The cool the cool river [01:04.10] [01:12.04]I believe in the future [01:13.91] [01:16.80]I may live in my car [01:18.80] [01:20.73]My radio tuned to [01:24.74] [01:25.67]The voice of a star [01:28.48] [01:30.47]Song dogs barking at the break of dawn [01:33.16]Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm [01:34.97] [01:40.85]And these old hopes and fears [01:43.05] [01:44.05]Still at my side [01:45.11] [01:59.29]Anger and no one can heal it [02:01.18] [02:01.74]Slides through the metal detector [02:02.99] [02:04.31]Lives like a mole in a motel [02:06.57]A slide in a slide projector [02:08.06] [02:09.24]The cool cool river [02:11.11] [02:13.92]Sweeps the wild white ocean [02:15.98] [02:18.74]The rage of love turns inward [02:21.55] [02:23.88]To prayers of devotion [02:25.21] [02:28.52]And these prayers are [02:29.96]The constant road across the wilderness [02:32.27] [02:33.14]These prayers are [02:34.76]These prayers are the memory of god [02:40.88] [02:43.19]The memory of god [02:45.44] [02:53.06]And I believe in the future [02:54.94] [02:57.62]We shall suffer no more [02:59.18] [03:01.43]Maybe not in my lifetime [03:04.48] [03:06.29]But in yours I feel sure [03:08.85] [03:11.22]Song dogs barking at the break of dawn [03:14.03]Lightning pushes the edges of a thunderstorm [03:15.71] [03:20.46]And these streets [03:21.35] [03:22.47]Quiet as a sleeping army [03:23.97] [03:24.79]Send their battered dreams to heaven to heaven [03:31.91] [03:33.97]For the mother's restless son [03:35.21] [03:36.90]Who is a witness to who is a warrior [03:40.91] [03:43.05]Who denies his urge to break and run [03:45.73] [03:46.79]Who says: hard times [03:48.79]I'm used to them [03:50.04]The speeding planet burns [03:51.22]I'm used to that [03:52.65]My life's so common it disappears [03:54.03] [03:57.54]And sometimes even music [04:00.86] [04:02.30]Cannot substitute for tears