I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lilynymph 

Cover art for I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain lyrics by Tim Buckley

If you listen closely to Jeff's "River of Dope", you will see that he is referencing this song, specifically in the lines: "Look into my eyes and you'll see That I flow with the river And I'm a slave to his song And I will drown forever where so many have gone" which correlate to the lines in "I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain", a song written about Jeff and his mother: "Yes, you can drink my lies If first you read my eyes Each one is titled 'I'm drowning back to you'"

At the 1991 tribute for Tim, Jeff also added the lines: "I want to feel the tide pull through me like a woman drunk in sin/Let the fish swim through me/Let the water take my skin".