Verse 1:
Swimming through the valley of the shadow of death Rotting flesh, dead bodies, just a casual mess
The captain waits a second, stops, then he catches his breath Looks behind him nothing there but black crows on the deck Their beady eyes reflect the red water running below
The undertow of the river dragging down on his soul
He's alone, for the first time, with nowhere to go
Except down the river slow, with his eyes on the road
And his, hands on the wheel, the wood grainy and old Outside it's just rainy and cold, rainy and cold
At this point he'd rather lay in the mold
And let the crabs eat his brain after maiming his skull
The mi- grain's too much, really taking a toll
But either way, only one way to go
He doesn't know but where he's going is home
Sometimes you just gotta push though the snow, and let go

Hook (x2):
Cause everything in the river has a place
And someday every mind will awake
The mind's gate is in every mind-state
So I wait for the wake to align with my fate

Verse 2:
Can't see ahead, fog thick as a hog's skin
He hock, spits, vomits up the eggs from this morning
Alarm clicks, but he's already up and aware
He doesn't care, grabs some bacon grease and gels up his hair
Looks in the mirror, "things don't always look as they appear"
At least that's what he tells himself when the wrinkles get near
The fear sets in, his beer belly jiggles around
To the sound of the rain drops slamming the ground
He's far from town...and he's stuck in his mind
Every single thought enters like a notch in his spine
He feels alive, is what he wish he could say
He’s got 99 problems & they all cause of b.a.e. (bay/b.a.e. (b4 any1 else) play on words)
She left him, cold in the dark like some ice in the tray
He felt lost like some mice in a maze
A heavy heart is the price that he pays
For holding on to the pain ‘stead of lettin it fade

Hook (x2):
Cause everything in the river has a place
And someday every mind will awake
The mind's gate is in every mind-state
So I wait for the wake to align with my fate

Verse 3:
Up and down go the waves so insane
Like Dorothy's windowpane when the tornado came
‘Cept instead of green witches it's mean fishes and bite marks
‘Stead of clean kisses from seamstresses the sky's dark
So he lights a cigarette
Puts in an old cassette that he got in Tibet
After that sat back, and he got into bed
And just then a strange man began to talk in his head like:
[Cassette starting noise]

Emotionally charged dialogue:
"No matter how bad it gets, no matter how goddamn meaningless it all may feel sometimes, it's all going somewhere. It's all going somewhere, and you're part of it. You, yes you! You're part of it! And it's part of you! And nothing will ever change that."

Hook (x2):
Cause everything in the river has a place
And someday every mind will awake
The mind's gate is in every mind-state
So I wait for the wake to align with my fate