The Present - Hem

When I saw him by the river

He just smiled and closed his eyes

He said you know that you’re gonna give her

One more present — one more lie

I didn’t see him for a while then

Though I heard his name around

So I walked down a hundred miles when

On that Iron Bridge it was him I found

I said you know that I have wandered

By the dust here on my feet

For every present that I have squandered

On every false heart that I meet

But I can’t take back what I gave them

No, I can’t make right what I’ve made wrong

I can’t pretend that I tried to save them

When they were drowning in my song

So I don’t come here for a new scar

For to cover the things I’ve done

I just come here to see how you are

Maybe see how I’ve become

Well he lay there on that Iron Bridge

Where the Earth and the waters part

He said Hello there well ain’t you gonna give