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!
Chris Murray lyrics