In the night when the town is still & asleep
In the dark of the moon, I've a date I must keep
I go down, I go down, I go down to the river

All alone, all alone I walk to the shore
To the love that I pray will be waiting once more
I go down, I go down, I go down to the river

How I long for your kiss, how I long for your arms
How I need to hold you again
Like a dream you appear; in the night you are near
& I reach out to touch you but then...

You are gone & I know, I long & I yearn
What the river has claimed, it will never return
I go down, I go down, I go down to the river to cry
Down the river to cry