raise you up

katie caught me by the river
couldn't happen, can't deliver
makes her shake and makes her shiver slowly

now the love lights out of passion
and the sights that passed for passion
have not the kindness or compassion only

i will raise you up sweet darlin
i will wake you up
i will take you up
into my sky

i will lay you down (in the water)
where you'll be safe and sound
both feet on the gound
you are always mine

katie caught me on the highway
1/2 the distance to miami
talked me into move north of vegas

we set up shop, quite a business
keeps you all on hooks and tenders
what with all the crooks and gamblers
in vegas

i will raise you up sweet darlin
i will wake you up
i will take you up
into my sky

i will lay you down (in the water)
where you'll be safe and sound
both feet on the gound
you are always mine

so me and katie split the difference
i took queens and she took memphis
a hundred seven car collision nightly

we tried and failed a quick escape
a serpentine bondlike evasion
that led us to our shallow graves
in sknny oklahoma

i will raise you up sweet darlin
i will wake you up
i will take you up
into my sky

she was ice and i was fire
i was truth and she was liars
i was innocence and she was a soul expired

from out of the hazy past and distance
a figure once appeared to both of us
friar tuck came to his senses, begged us, come with us

i will raise you up sweet darlin
i will wake you up
i will take you up
into my sky

i will lay you down (in the water)
where you'll be safe and sound
both feet on the gound
you are always mine