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.
We all must pay a price.
To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing.
What's around the riverbend?
Waiting just around the riverbend?

I look once more,
Just around the riverbend,
Beyond the shore!
Where the gulls fly free,
Don't know what for.
What I dream the day might send,
Just around the riverbend
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 riverbend.
Just around the riverbend!

I look once more.
Just around the riverbend,
Beyond the shore!
Somewhere past the sea,
Don't know what for...
Why do all my dreams extend
Just around the riverbend?
Just around the riverbend...

Should I choose the smoothest curve,
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 riverbend?