Spirit of the Water (song)

[Elysiumfire]

See the lights out on the water,

Come and go, to and fro,

In the time it takes to find them

You can live, you can die,

And nothing stops the river as it goes by,

Nothing stops the river as it goes…

 

All alone and all together,

Everyday, come what may,

By the time we find each other,

We can live, we can die,

And nothing stops the river as it goes by

Nothing stops the river as it goes…

(Bardens – Camel)

 

Endymion

As I watch you quietly sleeping,

In your dream, Endymion,

I caress your slender body with my gaze,

My lunar light,

And nothing stops the river as it goes by

Nothing stops the river as it goes.

 

In the breathing of the moment,

Time we shared, hearts that dared,

In my mind’s eye, there’s a dreaming,

We had lived, we had died,

Still, nothing stops the river as it goes by,

No, nothing stops the river as it goes…

(Elysiumfire)

[Elysiumfire]

Hi there...thanks for reading. You probably worked out what's happening here. Two different lyrics for the same song. The original is first, and my own lyrics second. Camel are a superb group and I was a big fan of their's back in the seventies when I was a teen. 

This particular track always resonated with me, and although the original lyrics are fine, I wanted to come up with my own on the theme of Endymion, the sleeping tender youth so loved by the moon. Everything is keeping with the theme...romanticised love, so little of it found in contemporary imaginations.

Edited August 5, 2019 by Elysiumfire