What the Water Knows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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*

The river meets the sea

The river meets the sea

Everything it ever was

Is finally running free