Just Around the Riverbend

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

They 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 extend 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?