The Rhine

Somewhere over the Rhine

I saw her passing the time

Picking blackberries on the vine

And from the top of that hill

I could see the city lights standing still

Where all her blackberry blood was spilled

Into the river, out to the sea

Her heart delivered the poison to me

Hours pass by the chime

Cathedrals keep us in line

For the altar where her blood runs red wine

Jesus was getting his fill at the party

Girls and god's will

Throwing all of Simon's dollar bills

Into the river, up on the cross

Take from the giver, count it all loss

My brother having a beer

And driving the car just like everyone feared

When the tire hit the curb and in the rearview the guard-rail disappeared

Into the river, deep in the Rhine

Oh how he shivered, the day that he died

(it haunts me that you never heard this song)