Title track featuring cellist Hugh McDowell (Electric Light Orchestra) and Steve Rodby (Pat Metheny Group) on upright (bowed) bass. This is an 'acoustic mix' that does not appear on the album.

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Down by the river side, watching the idle moments ripple by.
Beneath the ever-changing sky, we are but travelers, you and I.

Something I feel inside stirs with the ancient rhythms of the tide.
So many ways the world provides these parallels in our lives.

And I may change, and you may change…
But the river stays the same... the river stays the same.

Here we are on a river to the sea.
Time moves on like the water under me.
Chances are, on this river to the sea,
We may change, yet the river will always be…
Destined to the sea.

So rapid are the years over the falls into the depths of fear.
Channels of fate have brought me here
And now it's all so clear….

That I have changed, and you have changed…
But the river stays the same... The river stays the same.

Here we are on a river to the sea.
Time moves on like the water under me
Chances are, on this river to the sea,
We may change, yet the river will always be…
Destined to the sea…