What I love most about rivers is

You can't step in the same river twice

The water's always

changing, always flowing

But people, I guess,

can't live like that

We all must pay a price

To be safe, we lose our

chance of ever knowing

What's around the river bend

Waiting just around the river bend

I look once more

Just around the river bend

Beyond the shore

Where the gulls fly free

Don't know what for

What I dream the day might send

Just around the river bend

for me, coming for me

I feel it there beyond those trees

Or right behind these waterfalls

Can I ignore that sound

of distant drumming?

For a handsome sturdy husband

who builds handsome sturdy walls

And never dreams that

something might be coming?

Just around the river bend

Just around the river bend

I look once more

Just around the river bend

Beyond the shore

Somewhere past the sea

Don't know what for

Why do all my dreams e tend

Just around the river bend,

Just around the river bend

Should I choose the smoothest course

Steady as the beating drum?

Should I marry Kocoum?

Is all my dreaming at an end?

Or do you still wait for me, dream giver

Just around the river bend?