Song Description
I wrote this for a friend who was breaking up with his wife after what he thought was a successful, happy marraige.
| Song Length |
4:08 |
Genre |
Country - Alternative, Folk - Rock |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Heartbreaking, Moving |
Subject |
Breaking Up, Heartbreak |
| Similar Artists |
The Allman Brothers Band, Delbert McClinton |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
LIKE A RIVER
©2011 Scott James Stambaugh, BMI
There's a picture in your album of you standing in the rain
And the water holds your dress so tight against your tiny frame
And I imagine you spinning, laughing your arms flung open wide
With everything still before you and nothing yet to hide
CHORUS
Like a river
You're like a river
You're like a river
You carry me away
When you were young you were a princess, I can see it in your eyes
And when you finally came of age I imagine, you were quite surprised
To find a world full of frogs with no princes to be found
Still, every frog that you've ever kissed could not help but drown
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Tell me, why all this fighting?
You know it makes no sense to me
Tell me, why all this fighting
When it hurts me so
To watch you flow away from me
There's a picture in your album of you standing in the rain
And the water holds your dress so tight against your little girl's frame
And I imagine you spinning, laughing your arms flung open wide
With everything still before you and nothing yet to hide