I met you in 82, over a crate of beer and not a few 

I cracked a can and so did you, we're going to change the world 

The ghetto kings of downside town-the estates and parks of our hallowed ground 

Doing anything that we found, and on the river flowed 



You'd take a drink from Rev. Jimmy Jones

You'd cross the street on the path the gunman roams 

Thrown aside and left to waste, that was you - you knew your place 

Wander round, get off your face, and on the river flowed



On and on the river flow - we are the undertow 

On and on the river flow - we are the undertow 



I don't know how you made it through all the smoke and brew you do 

It sure has left its mark on you but you're still with us today 

Life goes on and round we go and words can kill these things I know 

Sometimes you cut deeply so, but on the river flows



You'd set the table for barber Sweeney Todd 

You'd clip the wings of any rising god 

But man can't live on hope alone, it can be cut all that is grown

Broke your spirit but not your bones and on the river flows 



CHORUS 



You're working now - forced to the race 

I know it left a bitter taste 

But the rising tide had covered your face 

Nothing you could do 

But I still remember the day you said 

That the river flowing through my head 

Would take me far or leave me dead 

And all you said was true