Jacob Tanks - Talkin’ Almaty River Blues

Описание: The lights seemed dimmer as I returned
Into the walls I roughly earned
The cottage I’m ashamed to call a home

The room gets bigger every day
Without a shoulder for my head to lay
But I reckon I can’t just yet afford to roam


After a rough shift I got me a moonshine
Alocasia seems just fine
To break the shackles for my bleeding mind

I was yet to know after the first sip
That my eyes would see such a trip
And mighty shine would make me go unblind


The clouds start hoverin over me
It looked just like the World War 3
And I was walkin up the road I knew

Atomic rain was bout to fall
But something held it after all
For me to go dry, ‘long my lonesome crew


November gales frightened the folks
‘Pon the shaky ground, neath the sky of smokes
And I gazed at no soul yonder riverside

And I took my clothes off ‘spite the cold
Not to say I was acting bold
But winds of fear against my chest seemed to collide


And what surprised me in a thrill
Was how a river was standing still
It did not run, or flow, or go, crawl

Someone else did the running
As I turned my head there were no friends
And I was dumped by the daughter of the sea


Naked as a newborn child
A little thrilled, but mostly mild
I stepped into the paralyzed stream

The cold of fall didn’t bother me
I went deeper for the unknown spree
Till I found my hips were neath the beam


And I couldn’t move, and didn’t bother to
I felt dead for a while, but then again, so was the river
But it was merciful of her not to sink me deeper to my hair

In a moment I felt how the wind did stop
The life on earth, it did vapor up
And suddenly I caught a stranger’s stare


I couldn’t help but to look at the sky
And lordy, lordy, me o my
The sky did split just like the ol’ read sea

I longed to enter that divine light
I tried to lift with all my might
But the goddamn river put the shackles on me


I was stuck and the river was dead
Then the sky closed above my head
And I was left to sink for all my sins

My soul wailed, my heart did explode
And I was drowning with the heavy load
Till I woke up in the frozen sweat


Well my head did ache, my heart was stressed
And I felt sickened to my chest
As I poured out what’s left inside the pint

Told my friends bout that mighty dream
One said: “Man, you’re gonna die it seem
The standing water ain’t good sign”



I said “I reckon I’ll be just fine”
The other folk said: “You was reaching for heaven
But I saved you”

I said “fuck’s that got to do with you?”
You ain’t gon make it about yourself, boy
You weren’t even there, you fuck



Well some time passed since that weird ole dream
And I’m yet to figure what did it mean
But here’s the thing that clings up to my thought

A quarter of mile from the dream I walked
And inside my sleep my heart start to poke
And for my life to its last breathe it fought


I know the shine’s mighty, but not to the point
Where the seat in heaven I fight to appoint
So now I wonder if I was sent a sign

But I’m bound to see that river soon
Neath the darkened clouds on a pale afternoon
I swear my blood won’t sip a drop of wine