Song Description
As with all the songs on the album, this song is about Lonnie and Chloe, who grow up on nearby farms on the edge of the Driftless Region in southern Wisconsin. This song is Lonnie's--his musing about the mysteries of Chloe, why she always goes out walking along the river when it's raining....
Main guitar on this is a 1966 Guild Starfire XII (my vote for the best electric twelve ever made)
Other guitars are a 1978 Guild S-60 and a Gretch 5622T
| Song Length |
4:16 |
Genre |
Rock - Alternative, Rock - Indie/Low-Fi |
| Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| |
Lyrics
Moonlight takes you--takes you far away where we don't go.
Starlight makes you--makes you so alive I just don't know.
You won't say...why you're so entranced.
You just want all the pleasures and the pain....
Walking rivers in the rain.
When I see you floating far away I wonder why.
When I touch you, I fall into your eyes blue as the sky.
Can't you see? Can't you read my mind?
It's just like the tunnel always swallowing the train.
Walking rivers in the rain.
Bridge:
Sometimes when you're close beside me,
Something rumbles deep inside me.
In the night I feel you breathing though you're always gone.
Morning comes and you show up at my door and ask me why...
The things that seem so certain always turn out to be just lies?
Your bloodroot smile, your mayapple morning glow,
your soul like the haunting call of distant cranes....
Walking rivers in the rain.