Float Down the Kamogawa Unplugged

[Intro] [Verse 1] Sittin' on the Kamo where the water splits the town, concrete bank, bare feet, and the sun goin' down. Herons standin' one-legged like they got nowhere to be — and for once in my whole life, man, that's the same as me. Whole day I was gripping something, didn't know its name, carried it from the platform to the office and it came right home in my pocket like a stone I couldn't drop — so I sat down by the river... and I let the river talk. [Chorus] Float, just float, down the Kamogawa slow, the water knows the way to go, so I let go, let go. Float, just float, let the evening take it all — downstream, downstream... watch it go, watch it go. [Verse 2] Threw a little worry in like a paper boat I made, watched it spin the eddy once, then the current had its way. Didn't fix a single thing, didn't answer one of them — just loaned it to the water for a while, and breathed again. My grandmother would say the river's older than my name, been carryin' the mountain to the sea and don't complain, so who am I to hold a thing the mountain couldn't keep? — I gave it to the Kamo... and it carried me to sleep. [Chorus] Float, just float, down the Kamogawa slow, the water knows the way to go, so I let go, let go. Float, just float, let the evening take it all — downstream, downstream... watch it go, watch it go. [Instrumental] [Outro] (soft, half-spoken) Herons still standin' there. (spoken) ...Yeah. Me too. A while longer.