The Riverside

I’m gonna lay on the rocks by the riverside hoping you leave me be

Stack those pebbles nice and high with a slingshot up my sleeve

Cause you never back down,never let up, can’t let me be free

So I’m gonna stay right here by the riverside, can’t nobody make me leave 

You won’t see me walking those old familiar roads 

Won’t be caught dead riding the tails of your coat

I’ve been burning bridges, I’ve been burning boats

Careful where your breathing, smoke clouds’ll make you choke

I’m gonna lay on the rocks by the riverside hoping you leave me be

Stack those pebbles nice and high with a slingshot up my sleeve

Cause you never back down,never let up, can’t let me be free

So I’m gonna stay right here by the riverside, can’t nobody make me leave

Don’t know what left you haunted, frankly I don’t care

The ghosts escaped your closet, left their poison in the air

When the legacy you carried, and left to all your heirs

Is sitting at your graveside, it was me who left it there

I’m gonna lay on the rocks by the riverside hoping you leave me be

Stack those pebbles nice and high with a slingshot up my sleeve

Cause you never back down,never let up, can’t let me be free

So I’m gonna stay right here by the riverside, can’t nobody make me leave

Your troubles they won’t reach me

The current pulls them away

Ain’t nothing you can teach me

Take your lessons to the grave

The days of your leaching 

My life away

Will soon enough be over 

Till then here’s where I’ll stay

Laying on the rocks by the riverside hoping you leave me be

Stack those pebbles nice and high with a slingshot up my sleeve

Cause you never back down,never let up, can’t let me be free

So I’m gonna stay right here by the riverside, can’t nobody make me leave

Can’t nobody make me leave

Can’t nobody make me leave