Schemers

Two drifters

Sleeping river

Pan for glory

And fated to secrets

Shake and shiver

Search for glimmers

For riches, fortune

By cunning or violence

Who could ever really know?

Dreams of gold inside our soul

Visions that will call us forth

Wherever it is, I go, I swear to you that

Two schemers

Long distant dreamers

What lonely fortunes

Planned for in secret

One lost it

The beautiful locket

He placed in pocket

The other saw envy

Who could ever really know?

What made him reach into your coat

And now and for evermore

Guilt will follow him along wherever he goes to

Two drifters

Sleeping river

The lonely fortune

Pulled from another

Five fingered glory

One left in the morning

Falling into silence

In envy and folly

Who can ever really know?

The story deep in every soul

Oh what lonely fortunes make

Forged in violence, don't you know

All of us drifters

Sleepers and grifters

Those we've forgotten

And those we step over

You gold panning pilgrim

One in a billion

If fortune should take you

Will it recreate you?