Suzanne
Suzanne takes you downTo her place by the riverYou can hear the boats go byYou can spend the night forever
And you know the girl's half crazyAnd that's why you wanna be thereAnd she feeds you tea and orangesThat come all the way from China
And just when you wanna tell herThat you have no love to give herShe gets you on her wavelengthAnd lets the river answerThat you've always been her lover
And Jesus was a sailorWhen he walked upon the waterAnd he spent a long time watchingFrom the lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certainOnly drowning men could see himHe said, "All men are sailors thenUntil the sea shall free them"
But he himself was brokenLong before the sky would openForsaken, almost humanHe sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you wanna travel with himOh, you wanna travel blindAnd you think that you may trust himFor he's touched your perfect body with his mind
Suzanne takes you downTo her place by the riverAnd you can hear the boats that go byYou can spend the night forever
And the sun pours down like honeyOn our lady of the harborAnd she shows you where to lookAmid the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweedThere are children in the morningThey are leaning out for loveAnd they will lean that way foreverWhile Suzanne holds her mirror