Genesse River Lyrics

I remember this place back in 1963

Grandma playing with you, and you playing with me

The back porch was the front porch, and the front porch was the back

Raising up the flag, and pulling up the weeds

Never worrying much about our future plans and needs

Or what we should eat, to prevent a heart attack

Spent most of my life trying to get clean

Climbing up mountains and swimming upstream

Trying to build a bridge from who I am to what I lack

Genesee River carry me back

Forty-one years rushed by in a torrent of time

Too many footsteps, too many chains on my mind

I gave all my love to girls who never gave it back

The current it seems, has washed them away

Along with the dreams that I was dreaming just yesterday

You'd think I'd remember, but I can't seem to keep track

Now I'm sitting here watching the muddy waters roll by

A soft summer breeze and a cloud in the sky

Fluffy and brilliantly white, when it once was black

I remember their faces, but not all of their names

Knotted shoe laces and badminton games

There's some kind of magic that glows from inside of that wooden shack