[Intro – River Current + Thunder]
[Water moving violently]
The river patient.
It don’t chase nobody.
[Low bass rumbles]
It just waits.
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[Verse 1]
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River roll black underneath moonlight haze,
Carryin’ secrets from old bad days.
Bodies, promises, blood, regret—
Louisiana water don’t forget.
I knew a man who got rich too fast,
Gold in his mouth, cocaine in his past.
Bought a mansion high above the flood,
Still couldn’t wash off where he came from.
Because money don’t silence ghosts,
It just buy curtains for what hurt most.
And every sin left unpaid eventually
Float back up through memory.
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[Hook – Choir + Deep Bass]
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The river takes…
The river know…
Everything buried beneath the flow.
The river takes…
Slow but sure…
No soul stay hidden forevermore.
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[Verse 2]
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Saw a woman cry by the levee wall,
Sayin’ her son won’t answer calls.
Whole family swallowed by streetlight dreams,
Another Southern boy lost to schemes.
And somewhere upriver old churches stand,
Still prayin’ over cursed land.
But prayer feel fragile when hunger real,
When survival sharpen people like steel.
That’s the danger in these humid nights,
Everybody searchin’ for escape routes from life.
Some find liquor, some find lust,
Some let the river pull ‘em under.
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[Bridge – Spoken + Organ]
You can outrun people…
but not consequence.
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Black water rise against the shore…
The past still knockin’ at the door.
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[Verse 3]
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And me?
I still hear the current speak.
Every bad decision whisper back at me.
Every bridge crossed half-asleep.
Because the swamp don’t judge out loud—
It just waits beneath the ground.
Till one day the water rise so high
You finally forced to look inside.
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[Final Hook – Full Choir + Brass]
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The river takes…
Name by name…
Washin’ pride into the rain.
The river takes…
Heart and soul…
Louisiana collect its toll.
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[Outro – Water + Distant Thunder]
Some things in the South…
always come back around.
