The River

And he dances every night
 Framed in candles
 And white white light
 All is revealed
 When all is too bright
 You're such a pleasure
 A wonderful pain
 Makes me never want
 To love again
 But sorrow always comes
 To those with fickle fame
 And the tears are gonna come
 The tears are gonna come
 We are consumed by corruption
 Old before our time
 Hurt by others' hunger
 Scarred by love as greed (how I need)
 How cruel the birthday of 17
 Youth behind you
 The long years ahead
 Showing you what you might have been
 Instead of drifting, drifting, drifting
 And the tears are gonna come
 The tears are gonna come
 Foundations crumble
 Walls subside
 We all break apart
 When there's heartache inside
 Hold back those years
 Those tears
 With a futile pride (we're gonna come clean)
 Beware of love
 And of dark-eyed men
 They're sweet and they're tender
 But they have no hearts
 Just long smashed
 Cruel shards of broken glass
 And the tears are gonna come
 The tears are gonna come
 And all those songs
 That made me cry
 Keep flooding back
 And years of new discovery and you
 Disturbing my dreams
 Now we're flowing down that river
 Heading for the delta
 I don't know which way to flow
 But my heart's a forest fire
 And yours a field of snow
 I don't know which way to flow
 Don't know which way
 Don't know which way
 To flow