Lady Lamb - Dear Arkansas Daughter

Take a swim in the waterTake a swim in the waterDear Arkansas daughterYou with the dark curls, you with the watercolor eyesYou who bears all your teeth in every smileHe says, "I can always hear you sing, I wanna hear you speak to me"While a stranger braids my hair back out on the streetAnd in your dreams, we are shooting at snakesAnd while you were asleep, I was surely awakeI was talking at a cigaretteWith nothing left to sayBut he should have been there anywayFor I didn't sing a single song, all dayAs my love for you diesAs my love for you diesAs my love for you is steadily dyingAs sharp and serious as a pistol in the eyeMy heart is full of swordsFull of, full of swordsYour love, it knows the LordTie my hands and I knock my knees asI kneel down, I kneel down in the seaTo the ocean floor, I will sink likeA steel chest full of weaponsAnd on the spine of the tide, you will rise likeA red ripe, red ripe appleTake a swim in the dirty waterDear Arkansas DaughterTake a swim in the dirty waterDarling child, true love of mineAs my love for you diesAs my love for you diesAs my love for you is steadily dyingDarling, child, true love of mineDarling child, true love of mineTrue love of mineTrue love of mine