Just Around the Riverbend

What I love most about rivers is
 You can't step in the same river twice
 The water's always changing, always flowing
 But people, I guess, can't live like that
 We all must pay a price
 To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing
 What's around the riverbend
 Waiting just around the riverbend
 I look once more
 Just around the riverbend
 Beyond the shore
 Where the gulls fly free
 Don't know what for
 What I dream, the day might send
 Just around the riverbend
 For me
 Coming for me
 I feel it there beyond those trees
 Or right behind these waterfalls
 Can I ignore that sound of distant drumming?
 For a handsome sturdy husband
 Who builds handsome sturdy walls
 And never dreams that something might be coming
 Just around the riverbend
 Just around the riverbend
 I look once more
 Just around the riverbend
 Beyond the shore
 Somewhere past the sea
 Don't know what for
 Why do all my dreams extend
 Just around the riverbend?
 Just around the riverbend
 Should I choose the smoothest course
 Steady as the beating drum?
 Should I marry Kocoum?
 Is all my dreaming at an end?
 Or do you still wait for me, dream giver
 Just around the riverbend?