[Verse 1]
Get out the way before you start to shiver
I'm no giver, I don't differ
Get out the way before you start to shiver
[Chorus]
Rode a white horse to a black river to swim to you
Hope you'd find the shore before its current swallows you
[Verse 2]
I swallowed a lizard, and it's livin' in my throat
Its head's a balloon and up's the only way it can go
Swimming is easy when swimming is all you know
If it's heading to ground, at least I can watch you go
[Chorus]
Rode a white horse to a black river to swim to you
Hope you'd find the shore before its current swallows you
Rode a white horse to a funeral to sing with you
Hope you'd find the shore before its sadness swallows you
[Verse 1]
Get out the way before you start to shiver
I'm no giver, I don't differ
Get out the way before you start to shiver
I'm no giver, I don't differ
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Rode a white horse to a black river to swim to you
Hope you'd find the shore before its current swallows you
Rode a white horse to a funeral to sing with you
Hope you'd find the shore before its sadness swallows you
White Horse, Black River was written by Brad Oberhofer.
Oberhofer released White Horse, Black River on Fri Oct 09 2015.
Singer/songwriter Brad Oberhofer talking to The Line of Best Fit about this song:
This song is partially about a dream Jack Kerouac had and about a song my Mom and her two sisters wrote and sang together at my grandmother’s funeral in the rain in Chicago. I wrote it while I was living alone in a ho...