Verse 1
I’ve spent some nights with a bottle at a bar,
Half-empty heart, trying to forget where we are.
I’ve worn out roads that never led me home,
Chased down sunsets just to find I was alone.
Then you came like rain on a field gone dry,
Like a porch light burning on a dead-end night.
And somehow all the miles behind my back
Started looking like they led me to this path.
Chorus
You’re the river running underneath my skin,
The kind of current I don’t wanna fight again.
If this life’s a storm, you’re the roof over my head,
If love’s a fire, you’re the coal that never quits burning red.
And when these hands get old and these eyes lose sight,
I’ll still know your shadow by the way it fits mine.
And if the world goes dark before the morning comes,
I’ll hold you close till the setting sun is done.
Verse 2
There’s whiskey in the cabinet, dust on the glass,
Old ghosts in the corners of a life I’ve passed.
But you never asked me to outrun my past,
You just showed me a place where it couldn’t last.
You’re the nail in the wood when the house starts to shake,
The quiet in my chest when the whole world breaks.
And if my heart is a compass worn thin by the years,
You’re the north it keeps pointing to, even through fear.
Chorus
You’re the river running underneath my skin,
The kind of current I don’t wanna fight again.
If this life’s a storm, you’re the roof over my head,
If love’s a fire, you’re the coal that never quits burning red.
And when these hands get old and these eyes lose sight,
I’ll still know your shadow by the way it fits mine.
And if the world goes dark before the morning comes,
I’ll hold you close till the setting sun is done.
Bridge
And if the good Lord gives us a hundred years,
I’ll spend every one making up for every tear.
When the clock quits ticking and the stars burn out,
I’ll find you wherever the lost souls are found.
’Cause some loves are matches,
Some burn like gasoline,
But ours is an old oak
Growing through the concrete.
Final Chorus
You’re the river running underneath my skin,
The road I’d take a thousand times to find you again.
If this life’s a storm, let the whole damn sky fall,
I’ve got your heartbeat and that’s enough through it all.
And when these hands get old and these eyes lose sight,
I’ll still know your shadow by the way it fits mine.
And if there’s another life waiting somewhere beyond,
I’ll find you there too,
Like the river finds the dawn.
Outro
So pour me one slow, let the old record play,
Let the years take their pieces and carry them away.
I’ve got no fear of the road when the road gets long—
I’ve already found home.”