Lyrics
22 years ago I crossed the water
22 years ago, the speaker crossed a body of water.
22 years ago I left this land
22 years ago, the speaker left a particular land.
42 years ago I had a daughter
42 years ago, the speaker had a daughter.
42 years ago she took my hand
42 years ago, the daughter took the speaker's hand.
As I wandered through the days, the nights, the moments
The speaker reflects on various moments, contemplating the future of the daughter.
I pondered what would come of her some day
The speaker wonders about the daughter's future.
Her eyes were wide, her spirit filled with fortune
The daughter is described as having wide eyes and a spirit filled with fortune.
What’s hers, what’s mine, what’s destined here to stay
The speaker considers the aspects of life that are destined to endure for both the daughter and themselves.
And so we stroll on down the line
The journey continues down the line of life.
They’ll be no warning, they’ll be no sign
There will be no warnings or signs on this journey.
And so we roll, and so we flow down
The flow down the river of life is emphasized.
The river of life
The river of life symbolizes the course of life itself.
22 years ago I left with secrets
22 years ago, the speaker left with undisclosed secrets.
22 years ago too much to tell
There were too many secrets to reveal 22 years ago.
42 years of old, she’d come to find them
42 years old, the daughter discovers and keeps the speaker's secrets in her own wishing well.
Tuck them deep inside her wishing well
The daughter holds these secrets deep within her.
As she wandered through the days, the nights, the moments
The daughter reflects on the speaker's past and contemplates its impact on the present.
She pondered what had come of me this day
The daughter wonders about the speaker's current situation.
Her eyes were wide, her spirit filled with water
The daughter's spirit is filled with water, perhaps representing emotions.
That wishing well had sprung to life today
The wishing well, where secrets are stored, comes to life for the daughter.
And so we stroll on down the line
The journey down the line of life continues.
They’ll be no warning, they’ll be no sign
There will be no warnings or signs on this ongoing journey.
And so we roll, and so we flow down the river
Emphasis on the continuous flow down the river of life.
we flow down the river
The repetition emphasizes the ongoing flow down the river of life.
we flow down the river of life
The river of life is reiterated as the central metaphor for the journey of life.
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