The Navesink Banks lyrics

Song information

Artist: The Gaslight Anthem
Album: Sink Or Swim

Lyrics

"All hope abandon, ye who enter here"
Said the sign I read that was hanging above her bed
And the sirens over wailing
But a man cant ignore the signs
You gotta keep a good eye
On the winding road ahead
And my first sin was a young american girl

And I spent time 'neath the tressels
With the punks and the dimestore saints
Kept faith and a switchblade tucked beneath my coat
And I ran with dirty angels
Slept out in the rain
We were scared and tired and barely 17
And my first sin was the fear that made me old

And I walked down by the shipyards
Near the place where I was born
Saying "ah maria, if you woulda known me when..."
But she just smiles by the light on the navesink banks
Saying "listen baby I know you now"
And she steps into the river
And I just stand by the moon
Thinkin' 'bout a ghost I hear at night
And she says your first sin was a lie you told yourself

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