Theo Hakola Bed of Rocks song lyrics

I want to hide inside your heart

and drink the river rushing through it

I want to abide in the rapids running o'er your bones

and sink my teeth into your gushing spirit

Oh let me lie down in your bed of rocks

smoothed to silk by the hand of quick water

Let me lie down deep where the cutthroat sleep

in your arms, far away from the slaughter

I want to sleep in your blue velvet skin

pouring sweet like Bitterroot runoff

I want to breathe in the cool of your bottomless pool

‘tween your banks I want to ply your trough

Oh let me lie down in your bed of rocks

down in your beautiful body of water

Let me lie down deep where the cutthroat sleep

in your arms, far away from the slaughter

You're the Coeur d'Alene and Pritchard Creek

Your eddies ease my pain

and your falls rock me to sleep

You're the old Saint Joe and the Clearwater, baby

where I want to go, where I want to lay me...

Down where the North Fork

and the South Fork combine

in the crux where your serpentine arms intertwine

and the moon in your eyes makes your waters rise

to cleanse the soiled valley of every mill and mine

Oh darling this is the verse

I've been writing forever

This is all I could have said,

all I should have done better

when you asked me to dive in

and I said I didn't need to

and you said you were hungry

and I wouldn't even feed you

Oh let me lie down in your bed of rocks

smoothed to silk by the hand of quick water

Let me lie down deep where the cutthroat sleep

in your arms, I'll be safe from the slaughter