Sweet scent of heavy cedar

Bathe the darkness of my mind

Memories like rising bubbles

Churning in the flow of time

I can be myself again

In a world so wild and free

A place before I’d been so burdened

The River wound so peacefully

So saudade

So saudade

So saudade

Healing wounds I’ve so sustained

Within your cool and damp embrace

Your clacking rocks, skipping the stones

To relearn ways I’ve since let go

Sparkle sunlight through the trees

Caress my skin, put me at ease

The siren song that is the wind

The murmurs of my long-lost friend

So saudade

So saudade

So saudade

Straddle the rock

Straddle the rock

Straddle the rock and ride it home