The River Of No Return

"Your First True Love"

Music & Lyrics by Scott Cooley.

I'd like to learn to live primitively

And see how this land used to be

Before the freeways and factories

The way this world was meant to be

Where I can't be seen by the satellites

Under the trees and out of sight

I'd like to get lost and fall asleep every night

Lookin' up at the starry sky

Someday I'd like to go to the middle of Idaho

On the map I can see it's mostly green

I'd head northwest from Salmon, make my way to White Bird

And see just what it's like in between

If I ventured a guess, there'd be so much to learn

In the wilderness, along the river of no return

I'd like to get back to nature, discover my roots

Read some Thoreau, break in my hiking boots

I'd live off the land with nothing to lose

Try to understand and pay my dues

With clean air to breathe and clean water to drink

Away from the noise where I could hear myself think

Who knows maybe I'd never come back

I'd live the rest of my life off the beaten path

Someday I'd like to go to the middle of Idaho

On the map I can see it's mostly green

I'd head northwest from Salmon, make my way to White Bird

And see just what it's like in between

If I ventured a guess, there'd be so much to learn

In the wilderness, along the river of no return

Someday I'd like to go to the middle of Idaho

On the map I can see it's mostly green

I'd head northwest from Salmon, make my way to White Bird

And see just what it's like in between

If I ventured a guess, there'd be so much to learn

In the wilderness, along the river of no return