As The River Flows

Oh, as the river flows Oh, as the river flows We're drifting in a dream (Oh, as the river flows) Hearing cries and screams (Oh, as the river flows) Too soon we pass the scene (Oh, as the river flows, as the river flows) As the river flows Forests and fields bare (Oh, as the river flows) Towns, dull and in despair (Oh, as the river flows) Is anybody there? (Oh, as the river flows, as the river flows) As the river flows We're drifting slowly Slowly drifting In a silent place where time has been suspended Ghostly we are creeping Who are we and where are we going? Weddings and funeral pyres (Oh, as the river flows) Factories and burning tyres (Oh, as the river flows) Sizzling electric wires (Oh, as the river flows, beware below) As the river flows Dead cars and dying trees (Oh, as the river flows) Wiped out by that disease (Oh, as the river flows) Buried in sites like these (Oh, as the river flows, we'll never know) As the river flows We're in the darkness, in the darkness Where we whisper and our voices hiss like paper No one dares remember But our memories hang and linger in the ether Closer - stay together Who are we and where are we going? We try to change the song (Oh, as the river flows) But we are dragged along (Oh, as the river flows) Soon... all gone We let it go as the river flows We'll never know as the river flows Oh, as the river flows Oh, as the river flows Oh, as the river flows