I guess I’ve always known   I was in this for life   It’s cost me some sleepless days   It’s cost me a wife   Maybe I’ve spent a little too much time   Looking in the bathroom mirror   Waiting for the steam to disappear   Thinking I was getting clearer and clearer      Maybe I could’ve been a cook   Or maybe taught high school math   Maybe I could’ve been the man on the street   With a future as uncertain as my past   But I’ve been singing for a living   Back and forth across America   Singing ‘bout things I should talk to my shrink   And to my shrink singing kum-by-yah      With my head in a song and a song in my head   Just let me live until I’m dead   There’s so many books I wish I’d read   Like war and peace   So many friends I’ve won and lost   So many masks I’ve worn and tossed    Into troubled waters I could not cross   And the river is me, and the river is me      River run to the ocean   River roll to the sea      They had this test back in high school   Said I had a career in forestry   Had aptitude for isolation   Yeah, I could live without tv   But me, I took the low road   Looking for another light   I don’t live in a tower on some fire road   But the human view is out of sight      With my head in a song and a song in my head   Just let me live until I’m dead   There’s so many words I wish I’d said   Like I’m sorry I am sorry    So many friends I’ve won and lost   So many masks I’ve worn and tossed    Into troubled waters I could not cross   And the river is me, and the river is me      River run to the ocean   River roll to the sea