You can't go back again to that river where the children swim
That house where we were living then is just a picture on the wall
Now the one you love is dead and you're sleeping in some stranger's bed
That's twice the price of medicine that no one needs at all
It doesn't matter much at all
It doesn't matter much at all
It doesn't matter much at all, at all
When leaves begin to fall
Who called this rabbi to the wake to teach
My sister told him you can't speak to me
You may as well just be an oil sheik
Playing baseball against a Jesus freak
We went outside to watch the winter moon
Our savior rode we did not ask him to
He cursed the hearse for showing up to soon
And he smelled like alcohol
It doesn't matter much at all
It doesn't matter much at all
It doesn't matter much at all, at all
When leaves begin to fall
You can't keep my love
You told me not to leave my love
Until I followed where your feet went on an endless summer evening
I knew I'd never find myself alone
Now I can hear cicadas sing
Of everything that summer brings
That I can dream next early spring
Will find you right back next to me
But if we never get that close
It doesn't mean that life's an empty hope
Trapped inside that haunted, holy ghost
We poured out of that old motor boat
It doesn't matter much at all
It doesn't matter much at all
It doesn't matter much at all, at all
When leaves begin to fall