History Book (Acoustic)-Dry the River

[ti:History Book (Acoustic)] [ar:Dry the River] [al:Shallow Bed (Acoustic)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]History Book (Acoustic) - Dry the River [00:01.11]Like faithful oxen through the chalk [00:06.59]With dragging tails of history walk [00:10.98]Soon confuse the compass and the cross [00:16.94] [00:18.57]Carefully and cursively [00:22.13] [00:22.91]Fill we our travelling diaries with with loss [00:28.68] [00:35.61]Beneath an angry Bible flood [00:40.49]Did you and I first learn to love [00:44.99]In my father's car we came to know [00:50.30] [00:52.02]And shivered in our painted clothes [00:56.69]And paired like every animal below [01:03.33] [01:09.31]It's heavy as a history book can be [01:13.44]I will carry it with me [01:17.35]Oh Lord [01:19.83] [01:25.38]Maybe when the bitterness has gone [01:29.37]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more [01:36.14] [01:42.47]Barefoot in a rowing boat [01:46.53]You lose your shoes and freeze your toes [01:50.72]And say I wear my sorrow like a crown [01:57.10] [01:58.12]And throw your arms around my head [02:02.59]And see it there in gold and red and brown [02:07.71] [02:13.43]It's heavy as a history book can be [02:17.33]I will carry it with me [02:20.94] [02:21.46]Oh Lord [02:24.27] [02:29.49]Maybe when the bitterness has gone [02:33.31]There'll be sweetness on our tongues once more [02:39.84] [02:46.14]We'll soon forget our parents' names [02:51.72] [02:53.88]Like dogs will drive the wolves away [03:00.24] [03:02.04]And weep with fingertips opposed [03:07.13] [03:07.66]A Like church where nobody congregates [03:12.41] [03:18.89]But sweetness sings in the pasture [03:22.62] [03:23.13]We throw ourselves on the mercy of the earth [03:26.99]If sand and salt have the answer [03:30.92]Then the act itself will be louder than the word