And The River Is Me

I guess I've always known

I was in this for life

Well it's cost me some sleepless days

And it's cost me a wife

Maybe I've spent a little too much time

Looking in the bathroom mirror

Waiting for the steam to disappear

Thinking I was getting clearer and clearer

Maybe I could have been a cook

Or maybe taught high school math

Maybe I could have been a man out on the street

With a future as uncertain as my past

But I've been singing for a living

Back and forth across America

Singing 'bout things I should talk to

To my shrink and to my shrink

Singing kumbaya

With my head in a song and a song in my head

Just let me live until I'm dead

There's so many books I wish I'd read

Like War and Peace

So many friends I've won and lost

So many masks I've worn and tossed

Into troubled waters I could not cross

And the river is me

And the river is me

River roll to the ocean

River run to the sea

I had this test back in high school

Said I had a career in forestry

Had aptitude for isolation

Yeah, I could live without TV

But me, I took the low road

Looking for another life

I don't live in a tower on some fire road

But the human view is out of sight

With my head in a song and a song in my head

Just let me live until I'm dead

There's so many words I wish I'd said

Like I'm sorry, I'm sorry

So many friends I've won and lost

So many masks I've worn and tossed

Into troubled waters I could not cross

And the river is me

And the river is me

River roll to the ocean

River run to the sea