And The River Is Me

I guess I've always known

I was in this for life

It's cost me some sleepless days

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've been a cook

Or maybe taught high school math

Maybe I could've been the man 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 my shrink

And to my shrink singing

Kum-by-yah

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 run to the ocean

River roll to the sea

They 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 light

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 am 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 run to the ocean

River roll to the sea