you cannot stop a river if it has a place to go

you can rediret the water but you can't arrest the flow

you can dam it, but you'll damn yourself

then you'll never know

where the river would have taken you if you had let it



run boy, run boy



the ground feels strange, strange beneth your feet

the ice looks thin, the water looks so deep

there is no right or wrong path, only good or bad

the bad one leaves you looking back at what you could have had,

you better



run boy, run boy



the silence of your planted feet is rising out with danger

run boy, run boy

before the need to move and grow will grow into a stranger



you have to stick your neck out to reach for the top

lay it all on the line, pull out all the stops

jump in with both feet where the wild river runs

you'll prove them all wrong who said it could not be done

stand up, stand up, everything has it's price

the more you achieve, the more you sacrifice

don't you listen when you're told about the "best days in your life"

a useless old expression it means passing time until you die



run boy, run boy

the silence of your planted feet is ringing out with danger

run boy, run boy

before the need to move and grow will grow into a stranger

somebody's watching you somebody's watching you

i'm out here watching you telling you to run



you will never stop this river

it has a place to go