这首歌说的是这样的一个故事:男主人公到河边的老橡树下会情人，却发现她已投河自杀。遗书上说她曾欺骗过他，不能再忍受这种痛与内疚的折磨。“I just couldn't tell you that guy was just a friend.”男主人公望着自己水中的倒影—孤独、无助、忧伤: “lonely, lonely face just lookin' back at me". So with "Tears in his eyes, and a prayer on his lips, and the glove of his lost love, at his fingertips".