Dark Tears - Joe Henry

My camera doesn’t lie to me

I see dark tears behind its eye

My camera doesn’t lie to me

I see dark tears behind its eye

It looks backwards on my future

Already in the sweet by-and-by

The rambler vines are climbing

They lock their arms across my way

The rambler vines are climbing

They lock their arms across my way

Blood lilies tell my secrets

Like they were the time of day

Your body speaks the broken street

Swinging as you go

Your body speaks the broken street

Swinging as you go

Sometimes words escape me

But there’s a rhythm to all we know

Some take wine for water

Some make bread from stone

Some take love for granted

Like they’ll never be alone …

I walk the Shadow River

And the dead don’t mind at all

Their memories just grow stronger

And their stories twice as tall

Out along the darkest bank

I can’t see your boat from here

Out along the darkest bank

I can see your boat from here

I’m going to stand out on the water

Till one of us does disappear