Nice and easy, I slip into the murky current flow
Like alligator driftweed, like catfish cruising low and slow
Roll on muddy river
Roll on, carry me
I saw souls all around me, with mud in their mouths and eyeballs blank
I saw one soul rowing hopelessly, toward a burning bush on a distant bank
Roll on muddy river
Carry me to the sea…
Ain't it a long, slow, easy ride?
And I know that time is on my side
I'm like a languid parasite, sucking on the blood of the earth…
Like a slow day dawning, I realize that the river runs in me
Just like all those catfish souls, on this slow death ride to sea
Roll on muddy river
I'm just rolling on, rolling down to sea
Drifting like a catfish, aimlessly
Roll on muddy river