Words by: Naomi Judd

Music by: John Jarvis

I'm holding back a flood of tears

Just thinking 'bout those happy years

Like all the good times that are no more

My love is gone...gone...gone forever more



Silence so deep only my soul can hear

Says now the past is what I fear

The future isn't what it used to be

Only today is all that's promised me



Flow on, river of time

Wash away the pain and heal my mind

Flow on, river of time

Carry me away

And leave it all far behind

Flow on river of time



We're all driven by the winds of change

Seems like nothing ever stays the same

It's fate that guides me around the bend

Life's forever beginning, beginning again



Flow on, river of time

Wash away the pain and heal my mind

Flow on, river of time

Carry me away

And leave it all far behind

Flow on river of time



Carry me away and heal my mind

Flow on river of time

Carry me away and heal my mind

Flow on river of time

Flow on

Carry me away and heal my mind

Flow on river of time

Flow on

Flow on river of time