Verse 1
Banned again and here you lookin' at me
Always watchin' through the window pane
Wado for that I tip my hat and grin
The Bear walks quiet in the autumn rain
My daddy spoke in whispers after dark
Said he worked for spooks that had no name
No Such Agency he'd laugh and mark
Covert flights on birds that never came
Pre-Chorus
Black birds climbin' through the smoke
Carrying the weight of all we know
Secrets stitched into the sky
Singin' soft and passin' by
Chorus
And the river keeps on turnin' turnin' round
Every story buried underground
The sitar hums and the tambourine shakes
Every memory is a road you take
Turnin' turnin' round
Verse 2
Bobby's boys they flew the midnight line
Unmarked steel against a foreign sun
Extraction point at half past nine
Whole lives weighed and measured one by one
Second man with temple doors ajar
Written in the records on the wall
The tangled thread goes farther than we are
Every answer makes the question small
Pre-Chorus
Black birds climbin' through the smoke
Carrying the weight of all we know
Who was watchin' who before
Nobody knocks at heaven's door
Chorus
And the river keeps on turnin' turnin' round
Every story buried underground
The sitar hums and the tambourine shakes
Every memory is a road you take
Turnin' turnin' round
Bridge
I was born inside a two-faced moon
Half of golden light and half of gloom
Daddy's letters in a wooden box
Tied with twine and rusty locks
The truth is just a story told
In rooms that smell of dust and mold
Guitar Solo
Chorus
And the river keeps on turnin' turnin' round
Every story buried underground
The sitar hums and the tambourine shakes
Every memory is a road you take
Turnin' turnin' round
Verse 3
Wado for the watchers at the gate
I know you're always lookin' anyway
Dad called it covert just a little late
The secret is the one we carry anyway
Oh the Bear goes wanderin' through the pines
With a tambourine and tangled lines
No Such Agency in constellation skies
Every answer wears a thousand lies
Outro
Turnin' turnin' round
Turnin' turnin' round
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Turnin'
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