If Time Was Really a River

Words and Music Copyright Robert Edgar 1982, 2002

If time was really a river

It might wash my memory clean

If knowledge was a ray of light

It might warm my foggy dreams

As southern breezes sweep the sand

And palm fronds gently shiver

Time was never a river.

If I was all you needed

To allow your journey peace

And your borrowed mythologies

To disperse again, and cease

Than all the worlds you’d hoped to see

Would have silently retreated

How could I be all you needed?

(break)

Banana River, barrier cay

Storm clouds shadow scenes.

A red sun burns the water

And waves have tattered seams

Green oceans boil with foamy tides

Men-of-war approach the trees

Gray pelicans collapse and drop

Into their salty, swollen seas.

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s,

On its waves the stars do lie,

The earth’s at home within its current

Southern breezes, blow by.