A Feather's Not A Bird

Album: The River & the Thread (2014)
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  • I'm going down to Florence, gonna wear a pretty dress
    I'll sit atop the magic wall with the voices in my head
    Then we'll drive on through to Memphis, past the strongest shoals
    Then on to Arkansas just to touch the gumbo soul

    A feather's not a bird
    The rain is not the sea
    A stone is not a mountain
    But a river runs through me

    There's never any highway when you're looking for the past
    The land becomes a memory and it happens way too fast
    The money's all in Nashville but the light's inside my head
    So I'm going down to Florence just to learn to love the thread

    A feather's not a bird
    The rain is not the sea
    A stone is not a mountain
    But a river runs through me

    I burned up seven lives and I used up all my charms
    I took the long way home just to end up in your arms
    That's why I'm going down to Florence, now I got my pretty dress
    I'm gonna let the magic wall put the voices in my head

    A feather's not a bird
    The rain is not the sea
    A stone is not a mountain
    But a river runs through me

    A feather's not a bird
    The rain is not the sea
    A stone is not a mountain

    A feather's not a bird
    The rain is not the sea
    A stone is not a mountain
    But a river runs through me Writer/s: John Leventhal, Roseanne Cash
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Hipgnosis Songs Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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