A Brand New River

Lyrics

On the way to West Virginia
Driving in our old Ford truck
You turned your gaze to me
Your dark brown eyes
Wide as the skies above
Pulled me deep into your loving sea

Those auburn curls
Dancing in the breeze
Your sunlit laugh
Full of surprising swirls
Made it plain for anyone to see
My heart would become yours
Roots growing deep as an old oak tree

Sharing thoughts and feelings we'd left unsaid
A few wrong turns along the way
How fast for us the day together sped
Arriving at night to the railway station
Its ramshackle hotel our destination
We wondered where our conversation had led

Those auburn curls
Dancing in the breeze
Your sunlit laugh
Full of surprising swirls
Made it plain for anyone to see
My heart would become yours
Roots growing deep as an old oak tree

Many lunches had we shared
Long walks wandering through the trees
A movie or concert here and there
Looming now, hanging in the air
Where would the path take us from here

Freight trains sounded through the night
Rumbling past our iron-frame bed
Together we forged fearlessly ahead
Trusting our love would surely hold fast
As we let go of our broken pasts
Taking off slowly down a brand new river

Those auburn curls
Dancing in the breeze
Your sunlit laugh
Full of surprising swirls
Made it plain for anyone to see
My heart would become yours
Roots growing deep as an old oak tree

Trusting our love would surely hold fast
We let go of our broken pasts
Taking off slowly down a brand new river
Our lives now entwined in the sunlit breeze