The fresh little breeze sweeps through with a song
It's ringing in reflective grass
About one place where I used to belong
Where Joy was in love with me once...
Oh, when was it the first time I heard this song
One river's muddy waters could perhaps recall
The time when joy was loving me is gone forever.
It’s gone beyond the point of no return
There wasn’t a dream of mistrust or a lie
In the heart and the soul of that youth
The beauty I saw with my all-loving eyes
Was Faith and a measure of truth
Oh God how long ago was that life of joy
Only muddy river waters could perhaps recall
The time when joy was loving me
Is gone forever, it’s lost for me beyond the point of no return
The further away I am walking away
From dignified victories days
The farther away is that sweet little place
With honest and broad pathways
In my search for a better life I've walked so far
Into a land of strangers where it’s all bizarre
But could this be my joy still running free
Singing in the air crying out for me...?
What else can I do? The Evil is strong
It’s trying much harder than Good
It warms up my soul, that old little song
In ‘San Fran’ and North Hollywood
May be I did not forget beyond recall
My happy old life and the joy and me "standing tall"...
May be just a glance at what I left behind
Will open the Future to my mind