Riverbank lyrics

Artist  : John Cale 
Song : Riverbank
 
All along the riverbank nobody seems to know
They heard nothing, saw even less of the hunger
in their souls
Safety first or safety last I wish I could have
helped
Those poor unfortunate widows standing waiting
for their sailor boys

Madame nhu, yes madame knew
Down they came to look around that riverbank
For names or numbers or anything they could find
written there
On the wall

Cause somebody seemed to know but no one was
prepared to tell
Anything they’d learnt to love about long ago
And the cold people getting colder
Like babysitters in their graves

Satisfying heretic vicars passing on
Send them running on ahead picking up the wendy
trash instead
Like foulmouth people openheart surgery
creatures
Crawling back inside of you

All along the riverbank nobody will ever know
What fools and their monies sailors and their
honeys
Got stung one evening there
Cause the stones around their necks are the
stones on the riverbank