Run Like the River

[Verse 1]

Wild rain

Stole apples from Father O’Hara

Chased each other down the lane

You swore you’d outrun thunder

Bare feet

Brown coat

Wild grin

“If the world comes down tomorrow

I’m still getting one more win”

[Chorus]

Run like the river

Seán Óg

Run

Feet on the gravel

Eyes on the sun

Laugh in the face of what can’t be done

Run like the river

Seán Óg

Run (hey!)

Run through the stories no book’s begun

Leave ‘em all guessing where you’ve gone

[Verse 2]

You signed on with the road crews

Chasing wages

Chasing roads

Sent back crumpled

Stained letters

“Don’t you dare grow old at home”

Then word came in a whisper

Rockfall on the mountain pass

They said you went in singing

Didn’t think it’d be your last

[Chorus]

Run like the river

Seán Óg

Run

Feet on the gravel

Eyes on the sun

Laugh in the face of what can’t be done

Run like the river

Seán Óg

Run (hey!)

Run through the stories no book’s begun

Leave ‘em all guessing where you’ve gone

[Bridge]

Now the lads at the fire still tell it

How you danced on the scaffold’s edge

How you hauled three men from the hillside

Then slipped past the broken ledge

And the old ones nod in the corner

Say

“The wild don’t truly die”

Every gust on the Galtee passes

Is you tearing up that sky (woah)

[Chorus]

Run like the river

Seán Óg

Run

Feet on the gravel

Eyes on the sun

Laugh in the face of what can’t be done

Run like the river

Seán Óg

Run (hey!)

Run through the stories no book’s begun

Leave ‘em all guessing where you’ve gone

Run like the river

Seán Óg

Run