Intro:

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What I love most about rivers is:
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You can't step in the same river twice
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The water's always changing, always flowing
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But people, I guess, can't live like that
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We all must pay a price
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To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing
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What's around the riverbend
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Waiting just around the riverbend


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I look once more
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Just around the riverbend
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Beyond the shore
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Where the gulls fly free
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Don't know what for
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What I dream the day might send
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Just around the riverbend
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For me
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Coming for me


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I feel it there beyond those trees
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Or right behind these waterfalls
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Can I ignore that sound of distant drumming
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For a handsome sturdy husband
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Who builds handsome sturdy walls
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And never dreams that something might be coming?
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Just around the riverbend
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Just around the riverbend


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I look once more
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Just around the riverbend
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Beyond the shore
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Somewhere past the sea
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Don't know what for ...
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Why do all my dreams extend
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Just around the riverbend?
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Just around the riverbend ...


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Should I choose the smoothest curve
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Steady as the beating drum?
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Should I marry Kocoum?
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Is all my dreaming at an end?
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Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver
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Just around the river 
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bend?

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