River, where will I be When the ashes have scattered and gone? Forever the music And the mystery That splashes in water moves on River, in thy melody A voice is laughing and crying For all I have been And all I will be In the course of living and dying In this moment The current is flowing fast But it holds on to nothing As it's going past When I reach my limit With travels infinite The empty places to fill I slow down a minute And look at what's in it 'Til everything seems to stand still River, in my memory I drift in the shimmering sun Deliver me please From my miseries When all of my dreaming is done River, is it my destiny To journey back where I've begun Through the geography Of my heart to the sea Where everything flows into one In this moment The future hurtles toward the past To vanish and return Going nowhere fast When I reach my limit With travels infinite The empty places to fill I slow down a minute And look at what's in it 'Til everything seems to stand still