Song Description

When I need to get away...

Lyrics

CAN I DRIFT ALONG?
©1971/2011 Mike Mattera


What am I doing here?
Where am I going to?
Why am I asking you? Oh River....

River running wild, running free, running strong
River running wide, run with me, drift along.

Can i drift along, drift along
Can I drift along, drift along
Can I drift along drift along

A lonesome troubadour
Trying to find life's real worth
Stringing words together
To cover up the hurt.

A wayward dreamer
Drifting in and out of life
Lost within the consequence
Where truth can't be denied.





River....you're where I find my peace ...oh river...
Chorus *




I've gambled my life away
And played life's toughest games
But the deck that I was dealt from
Left me walk away in shame.

A reckless kind of sinner
Broken all the holy rules.
No I'll never find my heaven,
With this fury of a fool........



I've had my share of living
But living has its price
Now a little bit of drifting
Lets me ease the pain inside.......