"She's a River" is the first single released from Scottish rock band Simple Minds' 11th studio album, Good News from the Next World.

Written by band members Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr, the song was inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, a book about self-discovery.

According to guitarist/keyboardist Charlie Burchill and vocalist Jim Kerr, the song was inspired by Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, which contains themes of self-discovery.

Govinda asks the now-elderly Siddhartha to relate his wisdom and Siddhartha replies that for every true statement there is an opposite one that is also true; that language and the confines of time lead people to adhere to one fixed belief that does not account for the fullness of the truth.

Because nature works in a self-sustaining cycle, every entity carries in it the potential for its opposite and so the world must always be considered complete.