ophelia

Madeleine Peyroux

There s a road
In my mind
I ve been watching
For a long time
Its the muddy Mississippi
And a yellow dandelion
From the Hudson River
To Missouri
In the mosses and red clay
I can feel the rhythm call me
From a thousand miles away

Let me go
Down to the river
Let me wander
Where the world is never mind
Let my heart know
That horizon
Like a mama s face
To a little child

I was born of the water
And washed onto shore
Been a waif to the seasons
Don t want to burden them no more
I ll keep moving for a life time
Be as quiet as the earth
When I listen to the water
I want to know what I m worth

Let me go
Down to the river
Let me wander
Where the world is never mind
Let my heart know
That horizon
Like a mama s face
To a little child

I m a season
I m a country
I m a loser and a queen
I m forever
I m nobody
In the wandering stream