THE RIVER MEETS THE SEA

I don't like the rivers here
They always run away
The ocean never lets me go
She's the one who always stays

She doesn't mind when I am sad
When the clouds in my head have turned gray
She wraps me up in her heavenly blue
With the rivers, I vanish away

I have this anchor I drag around
I pulled it from the sea
A girl like me can float away
So I keep it tied around me

Inland, where the rivers begin
The sun breaks through in rays
I sit beneath the sycamore trees
The treetops catch the rain

I let the forest bury me
In kaleidoscopic shades of green
Evening descends like a symphony
With the river, I drift to the sea

I'm the one who always dreams
The one who always pines
The lonely girl from the ocean block
Out on the barrier islands

I have this weight I drag around
I pulled it from the ocean
A girl like me can float away
And sink so fast, I touch bottom

I think of her on starless nights
When the summer sky turns gray
When sheets of rain blow through the trees
And the rivers rush away

I come from where the rivers end
Where everything dies and is born
The ocean never lets me go
She holds me in her arms

Someday I'll return as the river
Traveling back to the sea
Someday I'll put my anchor down
And there'll be nothing left to hold me

I'll disappear into the ocean
And there, I'll be reborn
And here beneath the sycamore tree
The earth and the stars will be one.