River Run Lyrics - Singles - Keelaghan James

River of blue cut through the valley 

Swept past the willows and the sandy bar 

Ran so swift, locked in my mem'ry 

But the way things were is not the way things are 

We used to swim in the crook of its arm 

In the summer heat who could be blamed 

Avoided the rapids as best as we could 

Never thought that that stream could be tamed 

Long ago I gave up that riverside valley 

Traded coulees for towers of steel 

Abandoned the vistas and valleys of childhood 

For the things that they told me were real 

No more would I run with the speed of a colt 

Cross the gravel down by water side 

To race with the twig I threw in at the bend 

Couldn't beat it though god knows I tried 

Now the river's not running as fast as it did 

There's a dam there restricting the flow 

And I don't run either as fast as I could 

Guess that river and I have grown old 

Now it's strange in returning to places of youth 

It seems your memory has made a mistake 

Cause the place that once scared you with white water running 

Has been turned by decree to a lake 

Makes me think about how too I smoothed out the wrinkles 

Made the waters as calm as you please 

Makes me think about how that river and I 

Were both happier when we ran free 

Now the river's not running as fast as it did 

There's a dam there restricting the flow 

And I don't run either as fast as I could 

Guess that river and I have grown old 

Guess that river and I have grown old