River Of No Return

Bruce Dickinson

River of No Return

Break the bread and drink the wine

Seize the chalice, suck the poison vine

There is frost in every sunbeam

Water flows from the earth to sky

Looking down on every rose

Nothing moves, the wheel of heaven turns

As our fingers leave their trace

We are gods in a world we dared embrace

[chorus:]

Now we're lost, you can't disguise, the river of no return

Now it's time you realize, the river of no return

Glowing embers of our ancient lives

We struggle hard, we live to turn the tide

Living longer in the astral waste

We stare each other, we look death in the face

All my life, in front of you

Lonely secrets hidden from your view

Now we orbit a different sun

For eternity, doomed to tell no one

[chorus:]

Now we're lost, you can't disguise, the river of no return

Now it's time you realize, the river of no return

[solo]

Now I'm truly all alone

Canyon walls and the river of no return

I'm amazed at what I am

I never knew the feelings I ignored

[extended chorus:]

Now we're lost, you can't disguise, the river of no return

Now it's time we realize, the river of no return

And the anguish drives me on, I wish I could return

All the love that washed away

Down the river of no return