If I understand Herman Hesse's Siddartha correctly, the "river" is a river of life and being close to it is a metaphor for being close to the previous (and future) lifetimes your soul has lived .. You know, all reincarnation and mystic stuff. The inspiration for the album itself is just abstract or metaphorical and I can't imagine it would be less cheesy if the song tried to explain all this to us in literal detail.
So we may just have to agree to disagree on that.
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