Crossing Mississippi - Jeffrey Foucault

Empty barns falling down to the ground

Ground falling down to the sky

In the country where I left you

The river never sleeps

She just keeps on rolling south in the night

And your beauty finds me there as I leave you

Seeks me out and calls me by my name

You are a temple where I take

Religion like water

Never in my life to forsake

Never in my life to forsake

Deep in this love I can’t forsake

And I woke up in the morning

Stumbling with my head bowed low

My hands made into prayers for every mile left to go

And every next time that I leave you

With only half a soul

Maybe if I pray hard enough

I don’t have to go

And your beauty finds me there as I leave you

Seeks me out and calls me by my name

You are a temple where I take

Religion like water

Never in my life to forsake

Never in my life to forsake

Deep in this love I can’t forsake