Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz
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 with that
To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing
What's around the riverbend;
Waiting just around the riverbend.
Just around the riverbend.
Where the gulls fly free.
What I dream the day might send,
Just around the riverbend
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.
Just around the riverbend.
Why do all my dreams extend
Just around the riverbend?
Just around the riverbend...
Should I choose the smoothest curve
Steady as the beating drum?
Is all my dreaming at an end?
Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver?
Just around the riverbend?