I can hear - voices in the water
Coming up like - smoke brings the wind
I have to take some time - to relocate that house of mine
I think I must lost it in the river
They see things so different
To green eyes they give nothing away
Do you think now at last
You can tell me
No you won't - give away
Crush snow on my face
Feels like burning
And birds black face singing in the tree
If I got myself a gun
Then I could shoot down everyone
Maybe I've just invented some religion
I saw father dancing with his daughter
And the music singing softly on the breeze
I can't see an end - salvation anywhere
Think I'll wait here if he comes he comes down the river
Think I'll wait here if he comes he comes down the river
I've heard all this before
Already I know
A lost soul - I won't say anymore

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The Sleepwalker Lyrics as written by Christopher Stephen Matthews

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Thanks for the reference to the This Kind of Punishment original, I tracked it down and listened to it on their home page. It validates that the line repeated twice at the end is "Think I'll wait here 'till the cows come down the river". I didn't think I was hearing things, that's a universal rural expression for "wait here alone until darkness falls" (since the cows come home to the barn at dusk to be fed and milked) and both New Zealanders and people who grew up in the Rural South would be familiar with the expression. That said, Chan re-arranged this song entirely, picking and choosing the lines she liked and putting them into the order she liked to give the meaning she wanted and changing some lines entirely. So yes, it's valid to discuss what Chan might have meant by her arrangement of the song.

Thanks for the reference to the This Kind of Punishment original, I tracked it down and listened to it on their home page. It validates that the line repeated twice at the end is "Think I'll wait here 'till the cows come down the river". I didn't *think* I was hearing things, that's a universal rural expression for "wait here alone until darkness falls" (since the cows come home to the barn at dusk to be fed and milked) and both New Zealanders and people who grew up in the Rural South would be familiar with the expression. That said, Chan re-arranged this song entirely, picking and choosing the lines she liked and putting them into the order she liked to give the meaning she wanted and changing some lines entirely. So yes, it's valid to discuss what Chan might have meant by her arrangement of the song.

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