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[wispfox]

Apparently, I need to have more chats with rivers. I haven't done that in a while, and starandrea's notice page today has an interesting thought in it:

-The river taught me something exceedingly clever yesterday and it's almost as cryptic as the last time.
-It's funny how the cleverest things are the most cliched, isn't it?
-Like we all knew the truth all along, we just couldn't understand it.
-"Let go of expectation: the circumstances are what they are, and smooth water is boring."


Yeah. There are many reasons that I adore starandrea. Things like the above is certainly one of them!

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I'm from Jersey, what'd you expect??

[wurmwyd.livejournal.com]

Hi There!

"I come from down in the valley. Where mister, when you're young,
they bring you up to do, just like your daddy done.
Me an' Mary, we met in high school, when she was just 17.
We'd ride out of that valley, down to where the fields were green.

We'd go down to the river, and into the river we'd dive. Oooh, down to the river, we'd drive.

Then I got Mary pregnant, and man that was all she wrote.
For my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a wedding coat.
We went down to the courthouse, and the judge put it all to rest.
No wedding day smiles, no walk-down-the-aisle, no flowers, no wedding dress.

That night we went down to the river, and into the river we'd dive. Oooh down to the river, we'd ride.

I got a job working construction, for the Johnstown company.
But lately, there ain't been much work, on account of the economy.
Now all them things that seemed so important, well mister they vanished right into the air.
Now I just act like I don't remember.
Mary acts like she don't care.

But I remember us driving in my brother's car, her body tan and wet down at the resevoir. At night on them banks I'd lie awake, and hold her close just to feel each breath she'd take. Now those memories come back to haunt me! They haunt me like a curse. Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

That sends me down to the river, though I know the river is dry. Oooh down to the river tonight. Down to the river, my baby and I. Oooh down to the river we'd ride.... "