Riverside ghost

I don't know how I got here

But here I will always walk

A riverside, a muddy bed

A ghost for company

It's always evening here 

Along the riverside 

The sun almost sets on the almost horizon 

And here I always walk

Tripping on gumnuts and wayward stones 

I tumble down the riverbank 

Hitting branches along the way 

They bruise my arms they scratch my face 

And I am tumbling down

Stumbling tumbling down

To the muddy bed of the river 

Stumbling tumbling down 

Sinking, mired into the mud 

It seeps around my ears

Above me, my taunting ghost

Looking down at me, looking up at her

There's mud on my hands

So paint it across my face 

And bend deep into my knees

To rise up again 

I scramble up that riverbank

Clutching at tree roots i climb 

My body is heavy, my bones they groan 

My ghost throws her head back and laughs 

I chase that ghost along the river 

And that ghost, that ghost she flees

She laughs with derision, she laughs with mirth

And so I push her down 

My ghost be tumbling down

Stumbling tumbling down

To the muddy bed of the river

My ghost be tumbling down 

The rocks don't bruise her translucent skin 

The branches don't tear at her face

The dense muddy waters don't pull her down 

Plunge, lunge, rise again 

I've turned my back from this scene 

Turned my head to walk away

But she follows me down that riverside 

For like the sun, she never sets

My feet they cannot run no more

But my heart is stronger yet

So I stand my ground on that riverside

And push my lover down

Maybe sometime not so soon

I walk while the sun still sets

She'll find me, and reach out her hand 

And I'll push her down again 

And that ghost, she tumbles down.