The River In Reverse
Elvis Costello And Allen Toussaint

How long does a promise last?nHow long can a lie be told?nWhat would I take in exchange for my soul?nWould I notice when it was sold?nnWake me upnWake me up, wake me up with a slap or a kissnThere must be something better than thisnCause I don’t see how it can get much worsenWhat do we have to do to sendnThe river in reverse?nnEvery man a crawling kingsnakenEvery girl a half a heartbreaknEvery woman sold into shamenTo any son without a namenAre your arms too weak to liftnAnother shovel on the graveyard shift?nHere comes the flood, if you catch my driftnWhere the things that they promised are not a giftnA man falls through the mirror of a lakenThey fish him out quick and they call him a fakenGive him all the temptations he can takenAnd tie him up high till his bones breaknnWake me upnWake me up, wake me up with a slap or a kissnThere must be something better than thisnCause I don’t see how it can get much worsenWhat do we have to do to send nThe river in reverse?nnI thought I heard somebody laughnLook out your windownThey’re chasing shadows in the darknThey’re counting widowsnI felt a sliver of glassnSaw a cross in splintersnI felt the truce of springnDig me out of the trench of winternnSo count your blessings when they ask permissionnTo govern with money and superstitionnThey tell you it’s all for your own protectionn‘Til you fear your own reflectionnBut times are passing from illuminationnLike bodies falling from a constellationnAn uncivil war divides the nationnSo erase the tape nOn that final ape nRunning down creationnRunning down creationnnWake me upnWake me up, wake me up with a slap or a kissnThere must be something better than thisnWake me upnWake me up with a slap or a kissnThere must be something better than this

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