The story of “Riverbank” Somewhere in Northern Portugal, I don’t remember the name of the city. A small coastal town with cobblestone roads and hand made walking bridge. I remember I’d already moved on and we weren’t speaking much. I was already speaking with someone else. I was pretty sure you could tell. I worked out the words on the backs of some receipts, a notepad supplied by the hotel and finally, on a piece of paper that I carried across that walking bridge, over a river beside the ancient hotel I would sleep at that night. I don’t think anyone got the song that night. I think I was still working it out. It might have been the fact that the song was in English. Sometimes you meet people on the road or people who also do this road thing and inevitably, you get talking about road stuff. One of the road things you sometimes talk about is the feeling of being strangely at home when you’re not, and somehow, not at all at home when you are. It brings me great comfort to know I am not the only person who feels like this. In those moments when it’s happening, you really feel like you are the only person who feels like this. Riverbank woke up in a city by a river alone with a broken key card and rotary phone can you hear the church bells in the market place theyre counting down the days until they see your face and they want to know if youll be home tonight its okay dont answer its alright if I see another hotel room Im gonna implode can never wait to get home when Im out on the road then Im staring at the walls until I go out again maybe I could be happy you could tell me when somebody wants to know if you wish I were there its okay dont answer I dont care somebody wants to know if youll be home tonight its okay dont answer its alright meet me at the riverbank and tell me Im yours you know what they say when it rains here it pours like a little black cloud showing up at your door I dont want to rain on this town no more somebody wants to know if you wish I were there its okay dont answer I dont care
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:57:00 +0000
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