And The River Is Me

I guess I've always known
I was in this for life
Well it's cost me some sleepless days
And it's cost me a wife
Maybe I've spent a little too much time
Looking in the bathroom mirror
Waiting for the steam to disappear
Thinking I was getting clearer and clearer
Maybe I could have been a cook
Or maybe taught high school math
Maybe I could have been a man out on the street
With a future as uncertain as my past
But I've been singing for a living
Back and forth across America
Singing 'bout things I should talk to
To my shrink and to my shrink
Singing kumbaya
With my head in a song and a song in my head
Just let me live until I'm dead
There's so many books I wish I'd read
Like War and Peace
So many friends I've won and lost
So many masks I've worn and tossed
Into troubled waters I could not cross
And the river is me
And the river is me
River roll to the ocean
River run to the sea
I had this test back in high school
Said I had a career in forestry
Had aptitude for isolation
Yeah, I could live without TV
But me, I took the low road
Looking for another life
I don't live in a tower on some fire road
But the human view is out of sight
With my head in a song and a song in my head
Just let me live until I'm dead
There's so many words I wish I'd said
Like I'm sorry, I'm sorry
So many friends I've won and lost
So many masks I've worn and tossed
Into troubled waters I could not cross
And the river is me
And the river is me
River roll to the ocean
River run to the sea