Aesop Rock - By The River lyrics

I like rivers, I like rivers
Sailboats, fisherman, skinny-dipping swimmers
Kids turning rocks over catching lil critters
Eagle in the pine tree eyeballing dinner
My uncle used to cut school
To hit the Susquehanna
Kept himself a rod and reel he
Hid up in the bramble
The school took attendance
It was quiet as a mouse
He was at the river pulling out
A giant by it's mouth
A river in the daylight is energy and life
A river in the dark can be a genuine surprise
You might find some lovers getting
Cozy on the shore
Or a cold-blooded psychopath disposing
Of a corpse sitting by the Hudson river
Talking to a ghost
"I wish that we could rock a beat
And smoke an L at Tone's
I miss the way you rhyme and
How you never had a clone
Ain't a motherfucker living that could
Ever crack the code"

I like rivers, I like rivers
Freight ships passing through old drawbridges
It looks so cool when you
Catch it from a distance
A little less cool when you
Stuck inside your Civic
I wonder what could possibly be
Lurking on the bottom
I look into the water and
Imagine all the options
A fish we never knew about
Some rusty old jalopy
The murder weapon used to
Catch the aforementioned body
I seen a beaver chilling by
The bank of the Willamette
We gazed upon each other undeniably enchanted
A wave of telepathic information
Through the filter
It said "when I go to heaven I
Want you to have the river"
He also said the others had
Agreed that I was chosen
Just don't mention it front of them
As gloating is for no one
I'm pretty sure you don't have
The authority to say this
But thank you, I accept
I'll have my lawyer draft the papers

I like rivers, I like rivers
Hard to put a price on water for the village
I jumped into the Amazon to
Launder all my atoms
The Chao Praya had me spilling
Coffee on the captain
My heart is the East River
Floating on a frisbee
That came in from the Long Island
Sound to sojourn in the city
It's not the kinda water where
You'd throw a Triple Lindy
If you get some on your skin
They probably notify your siblings
I picture a scenario where
Someone's held me captive
And escape would mean to build a
Raft and navigate some rapids
I wonder if my training from
The school of tv magic
Would beget some makeshift watercraft that
Make off for Damascus
In practice I have no desire
Get into the water
I like to know it's there in
The event I ever wanna
Waterfalls, tributaries, Lichtenberg figures
Twilight fireflies, I like rivers