She's young, at twenty two, and has almost two hundred years of memories. She envies him sometimes to be able to forget, but she would never say that to him.
She's always moving on down the way, never stopping. She has to, won't stop till she finds it.
Peace is what she wants; Silence is what she'd settle for.
Some night it's just easier to give up. On those nights she lets them dream. Waking in the early hours of dawn to broken hearts and tattered hopes. And then she cries.
His one goal in life - find out about his past. That's it, pretty simple. Clues come in and he goes off looking. Whatever gets in his way, he deals with the hard way. Everyone except her.
He won't drag her into this; she has her own search anyway.
He travels and travels and still has nothing more than he started with. Sometimes, at night, he just wants to give up and settle down with her. He can't though, he won't do that until he knows who he was and is.
Every few months they cross paths and come together in a storm of passion, but it never lasts more than a night. Neither willing to compromise their search for personal answers, to settle down and finally be one.
She follows the path of least resistance
She doesn't care to see the mountain top
She twists and turns with no regard to distance
She never comes to a stop
And she rolls, she's a river
Where she goes, time will tell
Heaven knows, he can't go with her
And she rolls, all by herself
All by herself
He's headed for a single destination
He doesn't care what's standing in his path
He's a line between two points of separation
He ends just where it says to on the map
And he rolls, he's a highway
Where he goes, time will tell
Heaven knows, she can't go with him
And he rolls, all by himself
All by himself
And every now and then, he offers her a shoulder
And every now and then, she overflows
And every now and then, a bridge crosses over
It's a moment that every lover knows
And she rolls (and he rolls)
She's a river (he's a highway)
Where she goes (where he goes)
Time will tell (time will tell)
Heaven knows she can't go with him (he can't go with her)
And she rolls all by herself
And he rolls all by himself
Fare thee well