Lyrics Like the River - James Vincent McMorrow

Like the River

Floating downstream like swans in the sun
Surrounded by friends and lovers
We looked on smiling
At the evening so bright
River behind and the fading delight
I knew her back from when she was young
Days blow in faster than rounds from a gun
Scattered like shells and lost to the sea
Like the river, the days flow
Rapidly
I have all these memories
I don’t know what they are for
I have them and I cannot help it
Some overflow and spill out like waves
And some I will harbour for all of my days
I like burn like oil
You grew like a flower
Rising towards your magical hour
For I was not yours and you were not mine
But true love it finds us when it is time
You drove back down town
To highways that I remember
Happy for you and happy for me
The old times and the new
I lay down in
In love with the night
My new love beside me
A radiant light
Fading away along with my thoughts
And like a train, I trail on
Mystically