Description
Some memories smell like water. The same water - river water, cool, slightly iron-tasting, mixed with sunshine and old summer vows. When an encounter happens by the shore, and life seems to click onto a new track - without announcement, without warning. Then time does its thing: it silvers the hair, washes away the traces from the sand, leaving only a faint echo where laughter and splashing can still be heard.
And yet there are feelings that the years cannot command. They just hang in the air, like a favourite melody that sounds like it was played yesterday. Nostalgia without anguish - warm, like an evening after a thunderstorm. When the past does not let go, but does not weigh you down, just quietly reminding you: not everything that has flowed down the river is gone forever.
Lyrics and translation
Original
I was down by the river, down, oh. When I saw you at the shoreline, hey, hey.
I nearly drowned when I checked you out.
Then you left and it felt so right, mm.
Oh, it went so fast right from there.
We're ten years older now with gray locks in our hair.
And yet it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, when I saw your pretty -face. -Your face, your face.
My God, it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, like we're lost in time and space.
-Your face, your face. -You're like a dream I can't replace.
I was down by the river, down, oh.
Where the years have washed away, girl, mm, mm.
But every time that I see you now,
I feel the love we had that day, girl, oh. Oh, it went so fast right from there.
We're ten years older now with gray locks in our hair.
And yet it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, -when I saw your pretty face. -Your face, your face.
My God, it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, like we're lost in time and space.
-Your face, your face. -You're like a dream I can't replace.
English translation
I was down by the river, down, oh. When I saw you at the shoreline, hey, hey.
I nearly drowned when I checked you out.
Then you left and it felt so right, mm.
Oh, it went so fast right from there.
We're ten years older now with gray locks in our hair.
And yet it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, when I saw your pretty -face. -Your face, your face.
My God, it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, like we're lost in time and space.
-Your face, your face. -You're like a dream I can't replace.
I was down by the river, down, oh.
Where the years have washed away, girl, mm, mm.
But every time that I see you now,
I feel the love we had that day, girl, oh. Oh, it went so fast right from there.
We're ten years older now with gray locks in our hair.
And yet it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, -when I saw your pretty face. -Your face, your face.
My God, it feels like only yesterday, ooh, ooh, like we're lost in time and space.
-Your face, your face. -You're like a dream I can't replace.