Suzanne

Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night forever And you know that she's half crazy And that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China Just when you mean to tell her That you have, that you have no love to give her She gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind 'Cause you've been, maybe you can trust her She's touched your perfect body with her mind Jesus was a sailor When he walked across the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower When he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said, "All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them" But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind 'Cause you think, maybe you can trust him He's touched your perfect body with his mind Now Suzanne takes your hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbor And she shows you where to look beneath the flowers Beneath the flowers and the garbage There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the mornin', they are leanin' out for love They will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind 'Cause you think, maybe you can can trust her She's touched your perfect body with her mind