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Floating on the Lehigh Lyrics
If I just left for a while
Dead dusk, a dive in the cold
Floating on the Lehigh
Floating off the river
Floating on to Bethleham
Innocent pin up and bow
Whispers dragging me down
Brother, breathe easy now
Nothing's taking over you
The kids can all crowd around
The candles on the mantle wave kind regards,
regards, regards, regards
But I know for all we've done
I'd never had guessed we did this for years
Floating on the Lehigh
Carry me to rest now
Floating on to Bethleham
And in the night
We'll all lay down
And we'll let it go
Forever, and never allowed for second tries
And my, what a quiet land
And oh, what a quiet man would try to break it,
It happens to be my specialty
And why, why, oh why
Why you insist on leavin' this all to the end,
I'll never know
Dead dusk, a dive in the cold
Floating off the river
Floating on to Bethleham
Whispers dragging me down
Brother, breathe easy now
Nothing's taking over you
The kids can all crowd around
The candles on the mantle wave kind regards,
regards, regards, regards
I'd never had guessed we did this for years
Carry me to rest now
Floating on to Bethleham
We'll all lay down
And we'll let it go
Forever, and never allowed for second tries
And my, what a quiet land
And oh, what a quiet man would try to break it,
It happens to be my specialty
And why, why, oh why
Why you insist on leavin' this all to the end,
I'll never know
Song Info
Submitted by
kstemz On Oct 31, 2008
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I live in this area. Bethlehem, Pa and the Lehigh valley in general. beautiful
This song is about someone going swimming in a river(the Lehigh) at dusk then they drown.
I think this song is one of the best of this decade.
To me its about feeling a sense of impending doom over something and the resulting confusion of that sort of situation. What that something is though is not necessarily specific, as is the case with most of Daniel Rossen/Department of Eagles/Grizzly Bear's lyrics.
A beautifully written and performed song.
I think it's about dying.
I think it's:
But I know for all we've done I never have guessed We'd end this here