Mike Doughty - Down On The River By The Sugar Plant lyrics

And I'm the loneliest man

They're selling incense and sunglasses on Orchard Street

Boatloads of bootleg Sean John

And I'll dream you up in this vast, dark bed

Believe I loved you for each hair upon the back of your neck, and I

Want to kiss you but I can't

Down on the river by the sugar plant

Earrings

Weighing down the lobe and

Nose a lovely slope and the mouth turned down

Shoulders

Pale and beautiful and

Angle of the throat and

Your sweet sad stare

All of the waves that crash upon the shore

Fruitlessly shushing the world

I pledge allegiance to my displacement

My flag of doubt is unfurled

And I'll dream you up on a vast, dark coast

Believe I see you walking toward me, arms outstretched like a Ghost, and I

Want to kiss you but I can't

Down on the river by the sugar plant