Like the River

[Verse 1]

They floated downstream like swans in the sun

Surrounded by friends and lovers

We watched on with smiles beaming so bright

The river behind them, the fading daylight

[Verse 2]

I knew her back from when she was young

Those days poured out faster than rounds from a gun

Scattered like shells and lost to the sea

Like the river, the days move rapidly

[Verse 3]

I have all these memories, I don't know what for

I have them and I can't help it

Some overflow and spill out like waves

Some I will harbor for all of my days

[Verse 4]

I burned like oil, you grew like a flower

Rising toward your magical hour

I was not yours and you were not mine

Our true love finds us when it is time

[Verse 5]

We drove back downtown, wasted and spent

Down highways that I remember

Happy for her and happy for me

The old times and the new to uncover

[Verse 6]

I laid down my head, in love with the night

With my new love beside me, her radiant light

I faded away along with my thoughts

Like a dream and I trail off mystically