Riverman

Two roads
Three ways to go
Riverman won't say which road he knows
All he knows
Nine lives
Thousand ways to die
Riverman won't make it through the night
Not tonight

Devil comes a calling
Thinks the riverman's forgotten
What he sold down in the darkness years ago
Creeps in through the curtain
Not to the wake the sleeping hermit
Oh, the hoof-prints burn the floorboards
From the window the backdoor
The riverman, he's riding on the breeze

Two days
Three nights away
Riverman don't trust so he don't stay
He don't stay
"The moon!" He cries
Not a cloud in the sky
The raving brings direction
But he lies
Ah, he lies

"Sleep is for the dead,"
The devil smiles as he says
Slips in the shadows as he plays his chasing game
The devil never loses
Never thinks, and never chooses
Never lost, he never was much for the lives we're thinking of
Oh, the riverman
He's riding on the breeze

Two roads
Three ways to go
The riverman won't say which road he knows
All he knows
Nine lives
Thousand ways to die
The riverman won't make it through the night
Not tonight