Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Goodbye To A River , by - Don Henley. Release date: 22.05.2000
Song language: English
Goodbye To A River |
| The rains have come early, they say |
| We’re all gonna wash away |
| Well, that’s all right with me |
| If heaven’s torrent can wash clean |
| The arrogance that lies unseen |
| In the damage done since we have gone |
| Where we ought not to be |
| Goodbye to a river |
| Goodbye to a river |
| So long |
| Lakes and levees, dams and locks |
| They put that river in a box |
| It was running wild |
| And men must have control |
| We live our lives in starts and fits |
| We lose our wonder bit by bit |
| We condescend and in the end |
| We lose our very souls |
| Goodbye to a river |
| Goodbye to a river |
| So long |
| The dirty water washes down |
| Poisoning the common ground |
| Taking sins of farm and town |
| And bearing them away |
| The captains of industry |
| And their tools on the hill |
| They’re killing everything divine |
| What will I tell this child of mine |
| I make a church out of words |
| As the years dull my senses |
| And I try to hold on to the world that I knew |
| I struggle to cross generational fences |
| And the beauty that still remains— |
| I can touch it through you |
| Goodbye to a river |
| Goodbye to a river |
| So long |
| Goodbye to a river |
| Goodbye to a river |
| So long |
| Goodbye to a river |
| Goodbye to a river |
| So long |
| Goodbye to a river |
| Goodbye to a river |
| Roll on |