Lyrics

VERSE 1
There's a woman who walks where the willows turn gray,
And she carries a lantern that never sees day,
In her eyes there are forests that no one has crossed,
And she trades all her future for what she has lost.

On the hillside the herons are learning to speak
In the tongue of old thunder and stone,
And the roads made of moonlight grow narrow and steep
For the shadow who wanders alone.

CHORUS
The river remembers the rain and the bone,
It carries the faces of all we have known,
It runs to the sea but it calls to the stone,
The river remembers -- and we're not alone.

VERSE 2
There's a sign on the mountain where echoes are born
From the breath of the world when it sighs,
And the ones who stand still at the edge of the storm
Are the ones who have given up skies.

Your eyes were the lantern, your hands were the door,
Your voice was the bridge over time,
And the river that carries us all to the shore
Was already knowing your name

CHORUS
The river remembers the rain and the bone,
It carries the faces of all we have known,
It runs to the sea but it calls to the stone,
The river remembers -- and we're not alone.

BRIDGE
The mountains are dreaming of oceans they've seen,
The oceans are dreaming of peaks,
And a girl with a crown made of what might have been
Is the queen of the things no one seeks.

CHORUS
The river remembers the rain and the bone,
It carries the faces of all we have known,
It runs to the sea but it calls to the stone,
The river remembers -- and we're not alone