Love Cuts The Strings Lyrics

The first thing that happened was the river overflowed
The water running through the streets and was sweet and coldThe Mountain Goats - Love Cuts The Strings - http://motolyrics.com/the-mountain-goats/love-cuts-the-strings-lyrics.html
I knelt by the water like a doe by a stream
Punch-drunk, snowblind, as though the whole thing were a bad dream