Trinity River Love Song

Here on the river things don’t change too much

Winter storms bring up the water

In late spring the miners return to their dredges

Followed by steelhead and otter

Tourists are smiling and taking the pictures 

of daring young white water rafters

while rapids respond with the same ancient language

a mixture of angers and laughter's

Chorus

It isn’t that I don’t love you now

And it isn’t that you don’t love me

It’s just that your like this bank of the river

And I’m flowing on to the sea

Remember the summer we lived in the Chevy

Camped by the edge of the river

We ate the berries that grew in the tailings

And took what the spirit delivered

River provider and river denier

The parables told and we listened

We swam in the dark pools surrounded by morning 

And naked on black rocks we glistened.

Chorus

I used to sit with my toes in the water

Watching it swirling and flowing

Following eddies and hearing the music

Wondering where it was going

I used to throw sticks for the big German Shepherd

She’d chase them and bring them back to me

But some times she’d just let them go with the river

And one day her reasons came to me

Written by Sara Hoxie. Song appeared on Prayer for Feather River and Waterfall Boy.