Now there’s danger in my mind And the help is hard to find But nothing compares with your brown eyes Now the path is full of stones And I’m always on my own The answers always come to me in disguise Oh, nothing ever lasts It always seems to pass But there’s always peace on the river There’s always peace on the river The waiter with a tray And a ciggy on the way But snapping with impatience fell me wayside Now it’s just an empty glass As the hours slowly pass And seconds turn to minutes in an instant Oh, nothing ever lasts It always seems to pass But there’s always peace on the river There’s always peace on the river As shaky as it seems I stepped out on its beams And it held me I took my final step No longer do I schlep And there’s beauty I continue down the road And I came across a gnome Speaking plainly of my thoughts and my follies And he said, “One day you’ll find Out that all true love is blind. Unfaithful will return on their knees crawling.” Oh, nothing ever lasts It always seems to pass But there’s always peace on the river There’s always peace on the river There’s always peace on the river