Goodbye To A River Lyrics - Singles - Don Henley

The rains have come early, they say 

We're all gonna wash away 

Well, that's all right with me 

If Heaven's torrent can wash clean 

The arrogance that lies unseen 

In the damage done since we have gone 

Where we ought not to be 

Goodbye to a river 

Goodbye to a river 

So long 

Lakes and levees, dams and locks 

They put that river in a box 

Well it was runnin' wild 

And men must have control 

We live our lives in starts and fits 

We lose our wonder bit by bit 

We condescend and in the end 

We lose our very souls 

Goodbye to a river 

Goodbye to a river 

So long 

The dirty water washes down 

Poisoning the common ground 

Taking sins of farm and town 

And bearing them away 

And the captains of industry 

And their tools on the hill 

They're killing everything divine 

What will I tell this child of mine 

I make a church out of words 

As the years dull my senses 

And I try to hold on to the world that I knew 

And I struggle to cross generational fences 

And the beauty that still remains 

I can touch it through you 

Goodbye to a river 

Goodbye to a river 

So long 

Goodbye to a river 

Goodbye to a river 

So long 

Goodbye to a river 

Goodbye to a river 

Roll on