slipping away from my mother's eyes
across the river road to our paradise
a world of tall grass and buttercups
the mighty mississippi and a driftwood hut
we held heaven in our hands there on the levee
that river ran so mighty and wise
it seemed to know
all the mysteries of life
we began to finally understand
when you looked in my eyes and took my hand
i swear it was the promised land
there on the levy
always eternally carved into a cypress tree
and you follow that river on its way to the sea
fading memories in the twilight of these years
there were only ours to know
our hearts had come so close
the day when we let go
there on the levee
fading memories in the twilight of these years
it seems i can't forget
my river of regret
the love that came and went
there on the levee
that levee still stands so strong and tall
but it could not keep my wanderer home
i guess that i should know by now
that river's gonna run on anyhow
life just comes and goes
and love just never knows
when two hearts will let go
there on the levee
there on the levee
