When My Love Crosses Over - John Hiatt

We made a pact

Lying there on our backs

Swearing to every star

That the sky did hold

Promising our love was true

Promising to see it through

Then we headed due southwest

Across the muscle shoals

We slid down a riverbank

In the pouring rain giving thanks

For the strength just to carry on

Through the fog and the cold

There at the water’s edge

She tugged my arm

And I nodded my head

Just one more step

And that river took a hold

When my love crosses over

I’m coming over too

To cross that mighty river that’s before us

To the new western world

Mountains high and plain unfurled

Desert stretching out

To touch the californias

We said we’d never look back

We never have and that’s a fact

That Mississippi washed us clean

Down to the bone

The journey’s been long my friend

Hell, you never know what state you’re in

Yeah, but the unknown

It’s always the unknown

When my love crosses over

I’m coming over too

To cross that mighty river that’s before us

To the new western world

Mountains high and plain unfurled

Desert stretching out

To touch the californias

I lost track of you a while

But you were waiting for me with a smile

Made me feel like a little child

With a brand new view

Let’s do it all over babe

It’d just be another trip we made

When my love crosses over

I’m coming too