As The River Flows (Wake Up)
And So The River Flows (Wake UP)

Oh The River Flows……….

Verse:
Settle down, drop back down to the old sacred ground,
All the while living in the morrow casting lots at things unowned,
Snarling at the moon from the water flows on the go,
Suddenly Reflections of my yesteryear,

Chorus:
I want to wake up where the river always flows,
I sometimes wake up where the sun never goes,
Wind in the Willows where did you go?
Wind in the Willows where did you go?
Thinking all the times that I lost my mind,
Thinking all the times that I’ve left behind,

Verse:
Time elapsed, wicker walls, Imagination ruled my brain,
Climbing on the trees of faith, waiting on a weaker pain,
Racing on the pickup tracks, walking on the redwood walls,
Tropical depression, drunk love city, manifest morning again,
Homeless Ed comes out the shed says “hey man where you been?”
I pull out a bulletin from a church, says “hey man let’s repent”

Chorus Repeat:

Verse:
Now the sun shines, makes me blind, now I think of Alfred E. Fine,
Captain Carl was a friend, he boxed balloons in Portland, Maine,
To think that I was just like them, makes me wonder where they’ve been,
We’re they bums, living on their own, is survival a sin?

Chorus Repeat:

Ending Bridge:
You better walk that line, never ever use your mind,
Stay out my garbage cans, you will not be the stronger man,
Nothing on this earth’s for free, I asked God and he told me,
These are not your birds or bees, don’t you hang your clothes from trees,
No more back packs in my store, no more chanting old folklore,
Now you will obey my rules, or you choose to be the fool,
When my kids go to school, they can see a negative tool,
Two days later my wife leaves me, what are my kids gonna think of me,
The sky’s my roof, the ground’s my floor,
Now I’m chanting old folklore,
Now everywhere that I go, I’m neither a friend nor a foe,

Oh the river flows…………….