Baez Joan Strange Rivers Lyrics

Strange Rivers Lyrics

(by John Stewart)

 

 There are voices in the mirror, faces at the door

 That open on the rivers we've never seen before

 Are there choices for the sparrow, or does he only fly

 High above the rivers that are pulling you and I

 

 Oh, there are strange rivers, rivers that we cannot see

 There are strange rivers who know our destiny

 There are strange rivers who brought your love to me

 

 He could have been a builder, he could have been the one

 Who turned his dreams to steel cathedrals in the sun

 He could have been a builder, until he bought the gun

 There are forces in that river that keep him on the run

 

 Oh, there are strange rivers, rivers that we cannot see

 There are strange rivers who know our destiny

 There are strange rivers who brought your love to me

 

 Have you ever turned the corner and wondered why you did?

 You haven't been that way since you were just a kid

 Nothing really happens and then you have to say

 You wonder what would happen had you gone the other way

 

 Oh, there are strange rivers, rivers that we cannot see

 There are strange rivers who know our destiny

 There are strange rivers who brought your love to me