[Verse 1]
Well, the evening rain washed out the riverbed
And the red clay had gone painted the river red
And I stood just as shaggy as a hickory stem
Are your eyes still as bright as I remember them?

[Verse 2]
Today the self-born are mocking both the growing and the dying
While their whims play games with this heart of mine
For we both took to flame like a sun-soaked pine
Takes to firelight high in the summertime

[Chorus]
We graced the fiddle with a dance
And the song that we sung
Served to remind that we're not yet unyoung
And the music rolled through us like a river runs
For a river knows that the waters are one

[Verse 3]
Around a circle of flame where the living draw near
[Ah/All?], the dead whisper a good word in a ready ear
Of the love they'd make if only they were here
And the chance they'd take before it disappears

[Verse 4]
But seems all was found just a little too late
Now hope lies hiding all alone in wait
While the rhythm in my head pines for the way
That we danced the way we did the day...

[Chorus]
We graced the fiddle with a dance
And the song that we sung
Served to remind that we're not yet unyoung
And the music rolled through us like a river runs
For a river knows that the waters are one

[Bridge]
And as I closed my eyes 'neath a waking sky
With my head on the ground
I prayed the morning light would bless what the night
Had found in between this old world and a dream

[Verse 5]
As you walked through the field in the open air
You were caught in the field of another's stare
I was finding how hard it can be to [bare/bear?]
The pain that gains all the more you care

[Verse 6]
Now I find beauty only in death upon a stage
And the rhythmed string of lonely words hurled upon a page
While the river rolls on through every age
Just the same way, oh, that it did the day...

[Chorus]
We graced the fiddle with a dance
And the song that we sung
Served to remind that we're not yet unyoung
And the music rolled through us like a river runs
For a river knows that the waters are one