Rivers of life

I was listening to and looking at the lyrics to Billy Joel's River of dreams. Then I wrote my own version about the Rivers of life. The words to his song is below. It makes mine make more sense if you don't know the words read his lyrics first.

Wooo hooo you gotta just jump in and swim it. Cross that wide river and grab the lost parts from the jungle on the opposite shore. Don't stay in the valley you will never make it to the river or to the other side. It isn't the promised land. It is "a land". You cross that land to another river. Don't hesitate just jump in and head for the next shore. Keep swimming and finding what you lost and moving on to the next river dive in and repeat. You find the good in the valleys jungles and deserts. You leave stuff in the river as it washes you and you come up for air. You keep kicking and swimming, searching and finding. Then you move on and jump in the next river. Each crossing gets easier until you get it down. Then you come to a wider river with a stronger current. You wade in this time learning some caution about just jumping in from getting your but kicked by previous rivers. You kick and swim, sometimes you feel like you will drown. So you kick harder. You make the opposite shore and keep on moving. You walk across the land and you get tired. You come to another river and you stop a moment, you take a breath and you dive in praying you have the strength to make it. Then you discover that you are stronger too. Not just the current is stronger but you are stronger. The river throws a few rapids in and you kick through them and bob up on the other shore. Sometimes you get out there in the middle and you don't know if you can make it. You don't know if you have the strength to kick. You think about just giving in. That is when you look around and see you are not alone. You give a few more kicks and you reach an angel that helps you to the next shore. You climb out and keep on going.



Copyright Linda Crowfoot 2008


In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

From the mountains of faith

To the river so deep

I must be lookin' for something

Something sacred I lost

But the river is wide

And it's too hard to cross

even though I know the river is wide

I walk down every evening and stand on the shore

I try to cross to the opposite side

So I can finally find what I've been looking for

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

Through the valley of fear

To a river so deep

I've been searching for something

Taken out of my soul

Something I'd never lose

Something somebody stole

I don't know why I go walking at night

But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore

I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life

Until I find what it is I've been looking for

(Two beat Pause)

In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

Through the jungle of doubt

To the river so deep

I know I'm searching for something

Something so undefined

That it can only be seen

By the eyes of the blind

In the middle of the night (break)



I'm not sure about a life after this

God knows I've never been a spiritual man

Baptized by the fire, I wade into the river

That is runnin' to the promised land (Long Five beat Pause)



In the middle of the night

I go walking in my sleep

Through the desert of truth

To the river so deep

We all end in the ocean

We all start in the streams

We're all carried along

By the river of dreams

In the middle of the night