Across the street the river runs

Down in the gutter life is slipping away

Let me still exist in another place

Running under cover of a helicopter blade



The flames are getting higher in effigy

Burning down the bridges of my memory

Love may still be alive somewhere someway

where they're downing only deer

a hundred steel towns away



Oh rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum

with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue

No never will I roam for I know my place is home

where the ocean meets the sky

I'll be sailing



Photographs and kerosene light up my darkness

light it up, light it up

I can still feel the touch of your thin blue jeans

Running down the alley I've got my eyes all over you baby

Oh baby



Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum

with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue

No never will I roam for I know my place is home

where the ocean meets the sky I'll be sailing

I'll be sailing



Oh I've got lightning in my veins

shifting like the handle of a slot machine

Love may still exist in another place

I'm just yanking back the handle

no expression on my face



Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum

with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue

Never will I roam for I know my place is home

where the ocean meets the sky

I'll be sailing



Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum

with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue

No never will I roam for I know my place is home

where the ocean meets the sky

I'll be sailing



The rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum

with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue

Never will I roam for I know my place is home

where the ocean meets the sky

I'll be sailing