Down Down the Deep River

Spit into the center of your home town There is leaves in the street and there are friends around you now All the days of your life in a line All the way that it seemed by '89 [Bridge] But it's not all right It's not even close to all right Down a hall in your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Down a hall in your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) We lie awake at night in a tent and I say "Tell me about your uncle and his friend Cause they seem like very bad men Well, we wanna keep away from them." Bend in the road back there, we saw the place to go Tell me about the greatest show or the greatest movie you know Or the greatest song that you taped from off the radio You're gonna play it again and again, it cuts off at the ending, though Tell me I'm always gonna be your best friend Now you said it one time, why don't you say it again? All the way down the line to where the telephone ends Come on and shout it on down the wire But it's not all right Not even close to all right Down a hall in your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Down a hall in your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) And as the rescue party, the volunteer team Ah, they're just kids of eighteen, and it's the worst thing they've seen And they're standing all around that tree And I'm so sorry that I can't stop crying (Oh, I know.) Shivering from the late fall cold I felt like a solid ghost I ran and then I couldn't slow My father found me though, my father took me home He said, "Oh, son, I saw you get knocked down And I ran out. I bet your head was spinning With that bright pain you stunned When you've only just begun to be only just beginning." Tossed in the viper pit, all those feelings and fears And all that difficult shit in all those tender years There was something in the air, something gathered in the air Something singing in the wind Oh, I'll be your fighter and you'll be my mirror And you'll be all right because I'll be right here Oh kid, now I'm not going anywhere I swear I'll try to not be going anywhere Though it's not all right. It's so far from all right We'll make it into a choice somehow I don't know, but you'll have a choice somehow Down a hall in your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) We can never go back; we can only remember (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Maybe they told you about the summer sky Maybe said there's a great gold spirit in the summer sky All your friends (all your best, best friends) Are gonna gather around your bed at night Well that'll make it all right because it is still so far from all right Oh, kid, I know Down a hall in your house, down a road in December (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Up the stairs four flights up; can you feel my heart shiver? (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Waking in the dawn with that dream getting dimmer and dimmer (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) I said, "Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down the deep river? Oh, down the deep river?" (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Down down, down down, down the deep river. Down, down the deep river (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Why don't you, why don't you say you still see it, say you remember? (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down? (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down, are we going down the deep river? (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river) Because I know it's scary, baby (Down, down, down the deep river, down, down, down the deep river)