Sweet river roll over me
Let my body find peace and let my mind be free
Oh my soul sings to Thee

Sweet river roll over me
Let my body find peace and let my mind be free
Oh my soul sings to Thee

Oh, Oh, Oh

The wild man he just killed my religion
He cut it to the bone like a needed incision
The cancerous growth of formulaic precision
That blocks the life-blood in rebellious collision

Cold constructs robbing faith from decision
But where's your rubric
Now for the man that was risen
He is my vision,
He is my vision,
Be Thou my vision

When the tables have turned,
And our lost money earned
And temples are burned
By His scars we will learn about truth
In the depths of our souls
That are marred by the tooth of a beast

Underneath so many deceased,
Sold out suckers traded life to be yeast
Just to get a piece or a status increase
Find grace and have peace when you eat the Lord's feast

And you eat, of His flesh, and His blood
It's coming quick and strong as the mightiest flood
And yet my mind still gets stuck in the mud
Bottom feeding on the trash like a catfish,
Brats wish on all of that which
Is established to sit ill in our hearts and in our souls, sweet river roll

Sweet river roll over me
Let my body find peace and let my mind be free
Oh my soul sings to Thee

Sweet river roll over me
Let my body find peace and let my mind be free
Oh my soul sings to Thee

It's like the water in the valley, submerged totally
Yet all the children rally around the safety of their shallow beliefs
Let's swim against the current out and into the deep

But first I pray the Lord for my soul to keep
That price paid was not cheap
As I stand knee deep in His blood
We're knee deep in his blood

See, I choose to refuse to substitute the regulated rhetoric of someone else's rehearsed ideals
In place of a real living commitment, Hell no

We put the rock in the water and it made cement
We put the water with the wheat and then we made it ferment
Shine light through the rain and a spectrum represent
We're pumping water through the veins and the brains content

Went down to the river following providence
Old man under water gonna die when he repents
Old man under water gonna die when he repents
But there's a new man coming up with the wings to ascend
The Son of man walks on water because He's heaven sent
I've these tears in my eyes as I cry with the joy and lament

Sweet river roll over me
Let my body find peace and let my mind be free
Oh my soul sings to Thee

Sweet river roll over me
Let my body find peace and let my mind be free
Oh my soul sings to Thee

Oh, Oh, Oh