The River

[slow build] [instrumental interlude] [break] [Verse 1] In the flow of time, a river runs deep, But the water’s changed, it never will keep. I stand on the edge, where the currents collide, Not the same man as the one who arrived. [Chorus] No man steps twice in the river's embrace, The waters will shift, and time will erase. A journey of life, through the currents that span, It’s not the same river, and I’m not the same man. [Verse 2] In the mirror of waves, reflections deceive, What I was, what I am, they weave and they cleave. The past is a shadow, the future’s a breeze, And the present’s a dance in the whispering trees. [Chorus] No man steps twice in the river's embrace, The waters will shift, and time will erase. A journey of life, through the currents that span, It’s not the same river, and I’m not the same man. [extended instrumental interlude] [Bridge] The river remembers the stones that it kissed, But the man who once loved them is lost in the mist. The echoes of laughter, the tears that we shed, Are washed in the currents where memories tread. [Chorus] No man steps twice in the river's embrace, The waters will shift, and time will erase. A journey of life, through the currents that span, It’s not the same river, and I’m not the same man. [Outro] So I’ll walk by the river, with no fear of time, For change is the rhythm, and life is the rhyme. I’ll dive in the waters, let the current define, The man who emerges, with a heart re-aligned. [fade to end]