Black Like The River Lyrics

Girl I was never the lovin' kind

So I took my solace in a bottle of shine

You said I can't feel nothin'

Goddamn you were right

So you took off runnin'

In the middle of the night

I guess I never treated you well

You wanted heaven, I gave you hell

So when you left that night

In the cold

It's a wonder why

I couldn't just let you up and go

Because my blood runs

Black like the river

At midnight honey

When the North wind calls

And I cannot

Love you any better

Than to tell you

That I never loved you at all

God knows why it took so long

Forty nights, you were gone

Guess I should of known

You'd head back home

Down to Louisiana

But you didn't go alone

Now girl I was never the jealous kind

And empty heart means a quiet mind

But I had demons screaming in my head

I lost sight of wrong and right

Yeah, I was only seeing red

And my blood runs

Black like the river

At midnight honey

When the North wind calls

And I cannot

Love you any better

Than to tell you

That I never loved you at all

Ain't been sleeping too much these days

I walk these streets at night in a haze

But this river's cold

And this bridge is high

And this sinner's soul

It was never meant to fly

My blood runs

Black like the river

At midnight honey

When the North wind calls

And I cannot

Love you any better

Than to tell you

That I never loved you at all

My blood runs

Black like the river

At midnight honey

When the North wind calls

And I cannot

Love you any better

Than to tell you

That I never loved you at all

But you know I'm a liar

And the truth is

I can't live without you no more