Ride the river in this boat, ride the river Floatin' down that old river, boy Yesterday is slowly fadin' All my worries far behind Leave old memories way behind I've been waitin' now forever For this ride All my life I've been waitin' For this time

My heads all wired In plain view There's nothing in the way I see with clarity The eye of destiny But just a little spark and once again, I don't know Deep inside The memories that are left behind

Don't leave me now I've been waiting so long I'm not feeling so strong Did you get all you want? Did you see the whole show? So where's all the fun That we used to know? As the memories fade Way out of view

And the end is all I can see And it scares the hell out of me It scares the hell out of me Erie whispers Trapped beneath my pillow You won't let me sleep Your memories I know you're in this room I'm sure I heard you sigh

And I'm living on memories of you Can't eat when I'm hungry My days are as dark as my nights And I see no sunshine in sight Your memory keeps blocking my view Can't sleep when I'm tired And all of these tears Can't put out this fire Your memory just

I will always love you If I should stay Well, I would only be in your way And so I'll go, but yet I know That I'll think of you each step of my way And I will always love you Bitter-sweet memories That's all I have, and all I'm taking with me Good-bye,

And you know, coming back is harder And leaving me is easy I read all the letters, I read each word that you've sent to me And though it's past now, and the words start to fade All the memories I have still remain I've kept all the pictures, but I hide

And I'll destroy the memories one by one The bitter past erased I'll not replace What's done is done No belief is all that's left and I do not regret The darkness welcomes me back home! The day has ended I lay awake A soft glow over my shoulder

They say I made the moon Everything was in the dark No memories at all Just a tiny freezing wind in my back As I was sitting there Singing a song they had never heard before Suddenly, a voice told me "Keep on singing, little boy And raise your arms in

The way we were Memories light the corners of my mind Misty water-colored memories of the way we were Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were Can it be that it was all so simple then Or has time