"Rivers and Roads" Revisited / 'til I reach you

A year from now we'll all be gone
All our friends will move away
And they're goin' to better places
But our friends will be gone away

Nothin' is as it has been
And I miss your face like hell
And I guess it's just as well
But I miss your face like hell

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Been talkin' 'bout the way things change
And my family lives in a different state
If you don't know what to make of this
Then we will not relate
So if you don't know what to make of this
Then we will not relate

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

Rivers and roads
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads
Oh rivers and roads
Oh rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads (Ooh)
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads (Ooh)
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads (Ooh)
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads (Ooh)
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads (Ooh)
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads (Ooh)
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

Rivers and roads (Ooh)
Rivers and roads
Rivers till I reach you

(Released in April 2011 by The Head and the Heart)

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This song, sacred to me, was brought to my attention indirectly by my only nephew whom I haven't seen since he was 10 years old in 2003.  Due to an apparently irreconcilable family estrangement, it now seems unlikely that I will ever see him again.  This song touches me on so many levels of life experience.  At my age, those of us who are here this year may or may not be here next year, but this song gives me the vision of being able to reach each other again in some mysterious way.  To reach the ancestors.  To reach those still to be born.