Shining Teeth - Cowboy Junkies

I don’t wanna see your shining teeth

Show me your bruised and battered heart

Prove to me that you’ll be true

Let me touch the wounds that have haunted you

Share with me the wounds that still haunt you

I’m goin' down to the river

It’s a place where I can breathe

Splash the waters, miss my daughters

Focus on my retrieve

Work on my reprieve

I don’t wanna see your shining teeth no more

She screams as she flies across the floor

I don’t wanna see your shining teeth no more

This life becomes a thin stream

And thinner with each day

I’m goin' down to the river

It’s a place where I can play

It’s a place where I can pray

I don’t wanna see your shining teeth no more

She screams as she flies across the floor

I don’t wanna see your shining teeth no more

And over time we become that line

And bow and drift and fray

I’m goin' down to the river

And wash the blood away

Wash my pain away

I don’t wanna see your shining teeth no more

She screams as I’m backin' out the door

I don’t wanna see those burned-out empty eyes

I don’t wanna see your shining teeth no more