The Cool, Cool River-Paul Simon

[00:19.05]Moves like a fist through the traffic [00:21.42]Anger and no one can heal it [00:23.85]Shoves a little bump into the momentum [00:26.07]Its just a little lump [00:27.24]But you feel it [00:29.16]In the creases and the shadows [00:33.87]With a rattling deep emotion [00:40.38]The cool, cool river [00:42.96]Sweeps the wild, white ocean [00:47.34]Yes boss. the government handshake [00:49.71]Yes boss. the crusher of language [00:52.05]Yes boss. mr. stillwater, [00:54.18]The face at the edge of the banquet [00:56.07]The cool, the cool river [01:04.50]The cool, the cool river [01:12.93]I believe in the future [01:16.89]I may live in my car [01:20.13]My radio tuned to [01:20.97]The voice of a star [01:29.73]Song dogs barking at the break of dawn [01:32.31]Lightning pushes the edge of a thunderstorm [01:39.24]And these old hopes and fears [01:42.27]Still at my side [01:58.32]Anger and no one can heal it [02:00.54]Slides through the metal detector [02:02.88]Lives like a mole in a motel [02:05.16]A slide in a slide projector [02:08.19]The cool, cool river [02:13.02]Sweeps the wild, white ocean [02:18.90]The rage of love turns inward [02:21.00]To prayers of devotion [02:26.91]And these prayers are [02:28.62]The constant road across the wilderness [02:31.56]These prayers are [02:33.99]These prayers are the memory of god [02:42.87]The memory of god [02:51.81]And I believe in the future [02:54.03]We shall suffer no more [02:59.16]Maybe not in my lifetime [03:03.90]But in yours I feel sure [03:09.09]Song dogs barking at the break of dawn [03:11.40]Lightning pushes the edges of a thunderstorm [03:17.91]And these streets [03:19.86]Quiet as a sleeping army [03:22.53]Send their battered dreams to heaven, to heaven [03:31.26]For the mothers restless son [03:34.26]Who is a witness to, who is a warrior [03:40.32]Who denies his urge to break and run [03:44.94]Who says: hard times? [03:46.26]Im used to them [03:47.31]The speeding planet burns [03:48.87]Im used to that [03:49.44]My lifes so common it disappears [03:53.61]And sometimes even music [03:59.55]Cannot substitute for tears