Beaver Blues

Got a dam half finished

Teeth all dull and tired

River runnin’ faster

Than this worn-out heart of mine

Chewed through plans and branches

Still the water pulls me back

To this crooked little shoreline

Where my worries stack

I got them beaver blues

Babe

Tail slap on that muddy ground

Building up a life that

Keeps on getting washed back down

I stack my hopes like sticks

Watch ‘em drift away in twos

Gnawin’ on the daylight

With these beaver blues (oh yeah)

All my cousins upstream braggin’

‘Bout their perfect wooden walls

I just sit here soakin’

In these slow and shallow falls

Tried to map the current

But it laughed and changed its mind

Left me chasing drifting dreams

I can’t quite trap in time

I got them beaver blues

Babe

Tail slap on that muddy ground

Building up a life that

Keeps on getting washed back down

I stack my hopes like sticks

Watch ‘em drift away in twos

Gnawin’ on the daylight

With these beaver blues (mm-hmm)

Maybe next log holds steady

Maybe this flood turns kind

Maybe I learn to love

What keeps undoing all my designs

Till then I chew through midnight

Under that cracked old moon

Singing soft and stubborn

This beaver-blue tune (hey)

I got them beaver blues

Babe

Tail slap on that muddy ground

Building up a life that

Keeps on getting washed back down

I stack my hopes like sticks

Watch ‘em drift away in twos

Laughin’ through the heartache

With these beaver blues