[Verse 1] Northwest line under my feet Juan de Fuca moves like a slow drumbeat Sea turns cold and the salmon come from the ridge to the mouth to the setting sun [Pre-Chorus] One story in two hands stone and water making lands [Chorus] Same old story same old song (geology, ecology) marching on Same old story same old song (the earth is moving) and the run is strong [Verse 2] Columbia runs like a westbound spine drops through the gorge carving hard lines Celilo spoke in a thousand tongues then the dam went up and the silence won [Pre-Chorus] Cold blue water cedar shade all we took all we made [Chorus] Same old story same old song (geology, ecology) marching on Same old story same old song (the earth is moving) and the run is strong [Verse 3] Puget Sound in its drowned-out frame islands, channels calling names Canoes cut through with the tide and spray cedar gave what the people prayed [Bridge] Yellowstone waits under the divide one drop west one drop east rides Geysers breathe from the buried fire headwaters split and climb higher [Final Chorus] Same old story same old song (geology, ecology) marching on Same old story same old song (one world, two waters) and the run is strong Same old story same old song (the earth is moving) and we belong
