[Verse 1]
Born up high where the cold winds blow
Nothing but the pull below
No map, no plan, no promised land
Just the mountain and the stone
Cutting through what it can't move
Finding every crack and groove
Slow and sure and all alone
Working, working to the bone
[Pre-Chorus]
You can block it, you can break it
You can swear it won't go on
But it was running before you got here
And it'll run when you are gone
[Chorus]
Still it runs, still it runs
Through drought and damage done
Through dark and dead of night
Through the weight of every fight
Deeper, harder, further down
Still it runs, still it runs
Nothing keeps a river down
[Verse 2]
Some years the river runs dry and thin
Rocks showing through like broken skin
Crawling slow across the ground
Barely making any sound
But come the rain, come the thaw
Come the things that cracked it raw
Every wound just cuts it new
Deeper than it ever knew
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Somewhere down the long long road
Where the river finally slows
Wide and deep and running clear
Everything that shaped it shows
Every rock, every drought
Every thing it carved throughout
Wears it like a lived-in face
Every scar still holding grace
[Pre-Chorus]
Not the same water that started
Back up in that frozen place
But it's still the same river running
And it still runs at its own pace
[Bridge]
It doesn't fight the rock
It just keeps going
It doesn't curse the dark
It just keeps flowing
It doesn't need to win
It needs to move
And every mountain
Gives a little
Every time it has to prove
[Solo]
[Chorus]
Still it runs, still it runs
Through drought and damage done
Through dark and dead of night
Through the weight of every fight
Deeper, harder, further down
Still it runs, still it runs
Nothing keeps a river down
Nothing keeps a river down
*Nothing keeps a river down*
[Outro]
The river meets the sea
The river meets the sea
Everything it ever was
Is finally running free
