Flow on River
Eternal Flow: Love, Loss, and the River of Time
Lyrics
I see the skull beneath your face
I perceive the hidden, darker aspect beneath your outward appearance.
Waiting to steal this moment away
Anticipating the theft of this precious moment.
To block this kiss, to steal delight,
To obstruct a kiss and take away the joy.
To kill the joy I found in loving you.
To destroy the happiness I've discovered in loving you.
Moment to moment the shifting light
The ever-changing light from moment to moment.
Runs in between the sea and the land
Fluctuating between the sea and the land.
Running like a deer in joy or flight,
Running freely like a deer, expressing joy or fleeing.
While the water rises on the sand.
While the water level rises on the shore.
Flow on river flow on.
Symbolic encouragement for the river to continue its natural course.
Carry us through time and change.
Asking the river to carry them through the passage of time and change.
Gently you are rising.
Describing the river's gentle, gradual rise.
Inch by inch, you'll wash us away.
Foreseeing the river eroding and washing away gradually.
Now take me down to Oglethorpe Square
A specific location mentioned, possibly reflecting nostalgia or memories.
There's a man playing guitar down there
Observing a guitarist in Oglethorpe Square.
He rode down on a bike from Boston long ago
A man who arrived from Boston and stayed for 30 years.
He never did leave. Now it's 30 years gone.
Reflecting on the permanence of the man's stay.
He let me play his guitar some
Recalling an experience of playing the guitar with the man.
While he plays harp and laughs with all the bums.
Describing the man playing the harp and enjoying time with others.
I saw you over on the corner by the Haitian soldiers there,
Noticing someone (likely the listener) near Haitian soldiers, smoking and smiling.
Smoking a cigarette and smiling.
Describing a specific moment of observing someone smoking and smiling.
Flow on river flow on.
Reiteration of the encouragement for the river to flow.
Carry us through time and change.
Repetition of the plea for the river to guide through time and change.
Gently now you are rising.
Restating the gradual rise of the river.
Inch by inch, you will wash us away.
Emphasizing the slow erosion and washing away by the river.
Through the murderous heat I feel a coldness rise.
Sensing a contrasting coldness amid intense heat.
A red star burns high in the sky.
Highlighting a red star in the sky, possibly symbolizing a significant event or change.
I sleep without dreams in your uncertain arms.
Experiencing a lack of dreams in an uncertain situation.
Until the mockingbird answers the dawn.
Waiting for the morning with the arrival of the mockingbird's song.
Stick with me, Baby, Come what may.
Expressing a desire for companionship despite uncertainties.
Til time and tide have washed all memory away.
Enduring until time and tide erase all memories.
Nothing can stop that river but the hands of God.
Recognizing the unstoppable nature of the river, only controlled by divine intervention.
And in those hands our future lies.
Contemplating the future held in the hands of God.
Flow on river flow on.
Reiteration of the plea for the river to continue flowing.
Carry us through time and change.
Repetition of the request for the river to guide through time and change.
Gently you are rising.
Repeating the description of the river's gentle rise.
Inch by inch, you'll wash us away.
Reiterating the gradual washing away by the river.
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