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
Jut 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?