Cowboy Junkies - All That Reckoning

Shining Teeth

I don't wanna see your shining teeth
Show me your bruised and battered heart
Prove to me that you'll be true
Let me touch the wounds that have haunted you
Share with me the wounds that still haunt you

I'm goin' down to the river
It's a place where I can breathe
Splash the waters, miss my daughters
Focus on my retrieve
Work on my reprieve

I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
She screams as she flies across the floor
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more

This life becomes a thin stream
And thinner with each day
I'm goin' down to the river
It's a place where I can play
It's a place where I can pray

I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
She screams as she flies across the floor
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more

And over time we become that line
And bow and drift and fray
I'm goin' down to the river
And wash the blood away
Wash my pain away

I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more
She screams as I'm backing out the door
I don't wanna see those burned-out empty eyes
I don't wanna see your shining teeth no more



Credits
Writer(s): Michael Edward Timmins, Alan Anton
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Other Album Tracks

  1. All That Reckoning, Pt. 1
  2. When We Arrive
  3. The Things We Do to Each Other
  4. Wooden Stairs
  5. Sing Me a Song
  6. Mountain Stream
  7. Missing Children
  8. Shining Teeth
  9. Nose Before Ear
  10. All That Reckoning, Pt. 2

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Altri album

  1. Such Ferocious Beauty
  2. Shadows 2
  3. Hard To Build. Easy To Break.
  4. What I Lost
  5. Sharon
  6. Songs of the Recollection
  7. Five Years
  8. It's Only Moonlight (Live 1994)
  9. Ghosts
  10. Live On SNAP, KCRW Studios, Santa Monica, CA. February 19th 1990, KCRW-FM Broadcast (Remastered)

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