Keepsake - The Gaslight Anthem

It’s been 31 years since she’s been in your arms

But don’t worry about mama, mama’s got a good heart.

And I’m not looking for your love, I’m only sniffing out blood

Just a little taste of where I came from.

At the bottom of this river,

Is where I put you down to lay so I can live with it.

And in my heart, heart, heart, there are these waters

Where I put you down to lie while I learned to live with it.

Until I’m free

And it’s been all my life, I’ve been wandering on the inside

What we could have had here if you’d been a part of my life.

And there were children involved and they were brothers to me,

Even if we never got to meet.

At the bottom of this river,

Is where I put you down to lay so I can live with it And in my heart, heart, heart, there are these waters

Where I put you down to lie while I learned to live with it.

Until I’m free at last from this shadow that hangs

Surely you wonder sometimes,

And I’m sure you all sympathize,

Just what a man’s to become,

But just like his daddy has done,

I just want to love someone who has the same blood, who has the same blood.

And at the bottom of this river,

Is where I put you down to lay so I can live with it And in my heart, heart, heart, there are these waters

Where I put you down to lie while I learned to live with it.

Keepsake, the keepsake.

'Till I’m free