Once my life was plain and clear    I recall   Once my ignorance was bliss   Nightfall came    like a serpent's kiss    to my troubled mind      Why, oh why my God   Have you abandoned me   In my sobriety?   Behind the old facade   I'm your bewildered child   So take me 'cross the river wide      Binding promises were made    On my soul   Grand illusions led astray   Ice cold winds    swept my heart away   Bring me back to you      Why, oh why my God   Have you abandoned me   In my sobriety?   Behind the old facade   I'm your bewildered child   So take me 'cross the river wide      (Woman:)   I remember a song   Like in a dream   Where September was long   And winter unreal      Why, oh why my God above   Have you abandoned me   In my sobriety?   Behind the old facade   I'm your bewildered child   So take me 'cross the river wide