Life, like a river, carries along and its taken me so far from home.

I tried to fight it. I'm bound like a slave, carried onto the grave all alone.

I'm not my own, going wherever that river takes me.

And I tried to give her all of my life, but she's taken me so far from home.

I tried to fight it. Riding that wave and its made me a slave of its own.

I'm all alone.

There's nothing left for me to do but ride, and let the river flow.

Where this life takes me, that's the place I go.

And maybe in time, it will bring me back to my woman,

but tonight, I'll let the river flow.